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Brazil's the biggest crack market in the world and makes up for 20% of the drug's global consumption, according to the Second National Research on Alcohol and Drugs, published by Federal University of Sao Paulo this Wednesday (5). Last year, 2.8 million people used crack and cocaine in the whole country.
The research reveals that, in the past year, 1 in each 100 adults used crack, which means 1 million people.
Finding crack was considered ''easy'' by 78% of the drug's users, and 10% of those claimed to sell some of the drug in their possession.
The research, which was conducted with 4.607 interviewed people in 149 Brazilian cities, shows that the first use of cocaine happened before the age of 18 for almost half (45%) of those who used or still use the drug. 48% became drug addicts and 27% claimed to use the drug every day or more than twice a week.
About 4% of the adult population have already tried cocaine atleast once in their lives. 3% of the country's teenagers have also had experiences with the drug.
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