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style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3633981322966563" data-ad-slot="6545629932" data-ad-format="auto"> US grows. abuse of methamphetamines, marijuana and drugs. The use of illegal drugs in the US increase in 2009 to 8.7 percent, the highest level in nearly a decade and was due largely to increased use of marijuana, officials said. The Administration of Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse (SAMHSA) released while the data of the survey on drug use and health based on interviews with about 67,500 people. This is the highest level since the survey began in 2002 and 2006 still ahead, because in both years, the percentage was 8.3 percent. As illicit drugs, the survey includes marijuana or hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens and inhalants. Other drugs that increased their consumption were ecstasy from 550,000 to 760,000 consumers and methamphetamine, better known as "crystal" that step from 314,000 to 502,000 consumers. In contrast, cocaine users 12 years of age or older were 1.6 million, a similar proportion to 2008, but below estimates of 2006, when there were 2.4 million. Again, the government agency reported increased drug abuse Prescription Drug Abuse, which went from 2.5 to 2.8 percent. The case of marijuana in 2009 reached among young 7.3 percent of consumption compared to 6.7 in 2008. Despite this slight increase, consumption stays away from 8.2 percent in 2002, when increased consumption of this drug on record in the last decade was recorded. NOTE. Snuff and medicine: As for the consumption of snuff, the rate among younger Hispanics, 12 to 17, and the second group of young adults, 18 to 25, decreased slightly in both cases. For the director of the Policy National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Gil Kerlikowske, increased consumption among young medicines as drugs. Parents should "take their medicine cabinet all imnecesarias or unused medicionas". THE DATA. Hispanics increased in 2009 its consumption of illegal drugs, up 7.9 percent. whites are drinking more alcohol (56.7%). Those who are Asians consume less. Alcohol intake among Latinos declined from year to year, from 43.2% to 41.7%, although drinking alcohol in a public context is more common among Hispanics than among whites, blacks and American. Hispanic youth, 12 to 17, is the third group in terms of consumption of alcoholic beverages, 15.2 percent, behind whites (16.1%) and those of two or more races (16.7 %). style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3633981322966563" data-ad-slot="6545629932" data-ad-format="auto">