This publication contains information compiled by the uniform statistical systems on supply and demand of the OID (CICDAT and SIDUC, respectively). It will be available shortly on-line at http://www.cicad.oas.org/oid

The following are some examples of the conclusions of this year's edition:

In secondary school students:

• Lifetime prevalence of use of any illicit drug in the seven countries studied, on average, is estimated at 10%, while estimated prevalence of use in the last year is roughly 6% and in the last month nearly 3%. There is no comparative baseline data for previous years as this is the first study of this type.
• Illicit drug use among male students is double or triple that of female students, depending on the country, in all three prevalence indicators, which is not a new phenomenon.
• The surveys confirmed the conclusion from other studies that there is a direct correlation between age and level of use: the older the students, the higher the percentage of users.

About the drug supply, in the year 2001:

• Coca cultivation decreased by approximately 9% compared to 2000, and remains at nearly 200,000 hectares, which is the usual level for the last ten years. However, the cocaine potential production increased 23% in the same period.
• Poppy crops and heroin production in the main producer countries in the hemisphere does not represent a significant percentage of worldwide production; at the same time, this production is significant at the regional level.
• Cocaine seizures in the hemisphere decreased in 8.5% with respect to the year 2000.
• Heroin seizures reached more than 4.4 metric tons meaning a 48.9% increase over year 2000.
• The countries with the higher number of laboratories of illicit drugs production discovered in the year 2001, were: United States, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela and Canada. Some of them presented considerably high increases.

 Note:  The summary will be available shortly on-line at http://www.cicad.oas.org/oid