Research Guides: Illegal Drugs: Statistics

Databases

Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window Information and opinions and on hundreds of today's hottest social issues; provides sources such as viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to reviewed websites.
PubMed This link opens in a new window Free medical database created by the U.S.National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health; comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Statista This link opens in a new window One of the leading statistics companies on the internet; categorized into 21 market sectors, provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

CDC Fast Stats
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides trends and statistical data on illegal drug use.
America's New Drug Policy Landscape
This 2014 report uses graphs and charts to show the changing views of on illicit drugs in America.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
This project based out of the University at Albany, State University of New York reports many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Here is a link to their many statistical charts on illegal drugs.
Polling Report: Illegal Drugs
Pollingreport.com is an independent, nonpartisan resource
on trends in American public opinion. Here is a current list of polls related to illegal drugs
NIDA: Trends & Statistics
U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse has statistics on a variety of drug related issues.
DEA: Statistics and Facts
Here are statistics on the fight against drug abuse, national drug threat assessment and national statistics.
Monitoring the Future
This 2005 publication reports the key findings and trends of adolescent drug use.