The Most Drugged-Out Countries
- Globe Trippin': The most drugged-out countries
- Guess where the U.S. ranks?
Seth Fiegerman, MainStreet.com
Photo Credit: Bistrosavage
We’ve been curious for a while about the drugging and drinking habits of other countries. How does America compare to the rest of the world? Do people in the Far East and Africa drink and smoke as much or more than we do? And which countries are more likely to do harder drugs? So we scoured through various studies in order to find an answer to the question, which countries that do the most drugs.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a comprehensive report back in 2008 about the drug habits of 17 countries across four continents. To get their statistics, the WHO surveyed more than 85,000 people worldwide, asking a series of questions to determine how much of the population had ever used alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and cocaine. We have blended the poll results for each of these four drugs, weighing them all equally, to determine which country has the highest overall percentage of citizens who confess to using drugs in their lifetime.
