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\u2026Nearly 50% of people have tried an illegal drug at least once, yet most don\u2019t repeat the experience. With cocaine, most who have tried it not only don\u2019t go on to became addicts under even the most expansive possible definition of the term, they don\u2019t even go on to become regular users.<\/p>\n
According to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health<\/a>, 14.5% of Americans ages 12 and older have tried cocaine at least once, but just 1.8% report using the drug recreationally in the past year. And just 0.6% have used it in the past 30 days, which would seem to be the minimal definition of a casual user.<\/p>\n
The same pattern is true for heroin, which is typically talked about as magically addictive. Fear of the drug is surely one of the reasons why just 1.8% of Americans have ever tried it at all. But only 0.3% report using it in the past year and just 0.1% in the past month. That pattern simply shouldn\u2019t be possible if these drugs were as addictive as commonly thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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