Incidence and use of unusual substances documented

The annual IDMU drug-user surveys list one of the most commonly-found drugs so as to monitor consumption styles, attitudes and costs. In addition participants are asked to mention any other medications they have taken as ‘write-in; options using unknown paper or web-based questionnaires. This report illustrates the substances normally listed by customer survey respondents, or like this source that could be of particular fascination to researchers. Substances include ‘traditional’ medicines, ethnobotanicals, legal highs and ‘research chemicals’.

Recording methods possess varied with minimal data available for many of the years, with drug name/ratings being the one ever-present variables. Where data can be found it includes or research chemicals at different market place levels (1-100 doasage amounts, gram/ounce), user ratings (marks beyond 10), age at 1st use, frequency of employ, weekly use, monthly spending, and methods of usage.

The most generally reported write-in drugs were Salvia Divinorum, 2-CB & versions, DMT and versions, Mescaline (inc Peyote) as well as cathinones exc methadone however including this one too. Percentages refer for the percentage of full write-ins (% W) using the overall prevalence one of the total respondents (% Big t). Surveys have been recently divided into three 5-year cohorts to be able to assess trends, listed in climbing down order of frequency. The results for the following substances claimed by survey respondents, and brief points thereof, are summarized down below in descending purchase of overall epidemic.

A shift could be the survey design from entirely paper structured to entirely web-based offers occurred gradually between 2004 and 2011, the web forms allow more specific questions being asked, and also are likely to attract a better proportion of users than in samples recruited at pop-festival stalls. As a effect the proportions regarding respondents reporting 4 mec prescription drugs has nearly quadrupled coming from 7% between 1997 and 2006 to 27% involving 2007 and 2011.