QUIZ Estimates of illicit drug use among adults from the 2014/15 Crime Survey for England and Wales CSEW can be found in the data tables.
KEY FINDINGS Around 1 in 12 (8.6%) adults aged 16 to 59 had taken an illicit drug in the last year. This equated to around 2.8 million people. This level of drug use was similar to the 2013/14 survey (8.8%), but significantly lower than a decade ago (11.2% in the 2004/05 survey).
Around 1 in 5 (19.4%) young adults aged 16 to 24 had taken an illicit drug in the last year. This proportion was more than double that of the wider age group, and equated to around 1.2 million people. This level of drug use was similar to the 2013/14 survey (19.0%), but significantly lower compared with a decade ago (26.5% in the 2004/05 survey).
The use of ecstasy in the last year increased among 16 to 24 year olds between the 2013/14 and 2014/15 surveys, from 3.9 per cent to 5.4 per cent. This is an increase of approximately 95,000 people.
Last year use of khat among 16 to 59 year olds has fallen to 0.04 per cent. This is a significant fall compared with the 2011/12 estimate of 0.2 per cent, when khat use was last measured by the CSEW. Khat was legal prior to June 2014, when it became controlled as a Class C drug.
Around 1 in 20 (4.7%) adults aged 16 to 59 had taken an illicit drug in the last month, while one in ten (10.2%) young adults aged 16 to 24 had done so. Neither proportion has changed significantly compared with the 2011/12 survey, when the questions on last month use were last asked.
Just over one-third (34.7%) of adults aged 16 to 59 had taken drugs at some point during their lifetime. This is similar to the 2013/14 survey estimate (35.7%).
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