One in every hundred people in China abuses drugs, according to the first study on China’s drug problem commissioned by the Chinese regime and released on June 24.
China’s National Narcotics Control Commission states in its 2014 China Drug Condition Report that there were nearly three million registered drug users in 2014—that is, those who have been arrested and placed in a database—nearly three times the figure from a decade ago. The report estimates that there are 14 million drug users in China, a country with a population of 1.4 billion.
Drug abusers in China tend to be younger people—of the three million arrested, about 57 percent were under 35 years of age; 90 percent had at least junior high school level education, and nearly 70 percent were unemployed, the report found.
