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I did a quick google search: * https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html * http://www.cbsnews.com/ne

I did a quick google search: * https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html * http://www.cbsnews.com/news/heroin-use-in-u-s-reaches-alarming-20-year-high/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/heroin-use-in-u-s-reaches-alarmi... * http://time.com/3946904/heroin-epidemic/ http://time.com/3946904/heroin-epidemic/ * http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/health/huntington-heroin/ http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/health/huntington-heroin/

pmoriarty 10y ago
Versus the number of marijuana users, please.
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- ambrice 10y ago
  Also consider what the average marijuana user is spending per day vs what the average heroin user is spending.
adevine 10y ago
From these links, main number seems to be "Nearly 10 million Americans, or 4.1 percent of the adult population, used prescription opioid painkillers for nonmedical reasons in 2012-2013". Numbers I've seen for marijuana were about 11.5% in a year, though that was for 2001. So certainly higher usage for marijuana, but definitely not "many orders of magnitude"