2. Iran
•Substance
•Heroin
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•95,000,00
•Per Capita
•14.32%
•Iran is smack bang in the
middle of a major opiate
smuggling route, and this
has impacted upon the
country’s growing drug
problem.
• Since the revolution, the
number of heroin addicts in
Iran has risen sharply to an
official estimate of around
3.5 million.

3. UK
•Substance
•Alcohol
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•81,3000
•Per capita
•13.65%
•According to BBC, alcohol
is thought to be responsible
for 34,000 deaths in the UK
each year because of the
damage it does to the
body—plus many more
because of the indirect
effect of alcohol. The cost of
binge drinking to
employers is estimated to
be £6.4 billion and alcohol
harm is thought to cost the
National Health Service
£2.7 billion.

4. France
•Substance:-
•Prescription pills
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•85,000,0
•Per capita
•13.2%
•They hate hangovers and
like their tranquilizers
•They consume 78
tranquilizers and
antidepressants per 1,000
people

5. Slovakia
•Substance
•Inhalants
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•7,000,0
•Per capita
•13.01%
•Researcher Peter Vazan
found that easy access to
toluene, a paint thinner,
increased the incidence of
abuse, and concluded that
the current treatment is
ineffective.

6. Russia
•Substance
•Alcohol
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•100,000
•Per capita
•7.1%
•A study in The Lancet
examined deaths between
1990 and 2001 of residents of
three Siberian industrial
towns with typical mortality
rates; 52% of those between
the ages of 15 and 54 were
found to be the result of
alcohol abuse. In June, 2009,
the Public Chamber of Russia
reported “over 500,000
alcohol-related deaths
annually,

7. Afghanistan
•Substance
•Heroin
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•24,3000
•Per capita
•6.9%
•According to UN figures,
between 2005 and 2009, the
number of opiate drug users in
Afghanistan grew by 53
percent to 230,000, with six
percent of those figures
pertaining to intravenous drug
users
•This means that nearly three
percent of Afghans between
the ages of 15 and 64 are
addicted to opiates, according
to a study by the UN Office on
Drugs and Crime.

8. Canada
•Substance
•Pot
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•22,3000
•Per capita
•6.4%
•According to the 2007
World Drug Report by the
UN Office on Drugs and
Crime, 16.8 percent of
Canadians between the
ages of 15 and 64 smoked
pot last year.

9. United States
•Substance
•Prescription pills
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•192,9000
•Per capita
•6.2%
•It’s estimated that up to 20%
of people in the US have used
prescription pharmaceuticals—
narcotic painkillers, sedatives,
tranquilizers and stimulants—
for reasons other than why
they were prescribed
•In 2000, about 43 percent of
hospital emergency admissions
(that’s about half a million
people) were the result of
prescription drug abuse

10. Brazil
•Substance
•Oxi
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•84,3000
•Per capita
•4.29%

11. Mexico
•Substance:-
•Meth
•Total Number of Addicts
(approx.)
•14,1000
•Per capita
•3.9%

12.  http://blogs.ft.com/the-
world/2013/02/booze-and-broken-noses-
russias-in-flight-brawlers/
 http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada-needs-risk-
management-approach-to-pot-study-1.701855
 http://www.whichcountry.co
 http://www.thefix.com
 Presented by:-
 Sofia Mubashir