Data comes the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Made with matplotlib in Python.
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![[OC] Drug use by 16-24-year-olds in the UK since the 1990s](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ecehh93gr3mg1-1169x1536.png "[OC] Drug use by 16-24-year-olds in the UK since the 1990s")
Data comes the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Made with matplotlib in Python.
Posted by Aggravating-Food9603
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Data comes the [Crime Survey for England and Wales](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/drugmisuseinenglandandwalesappendixtable). Made with matplotlib in Python.
quite a good recession indicator, clearly they’re too bloody expensive
Yup, pretty much sums up 1995
These kids are clearly falling behind on their drug use!
I thought at least steroids would have gone up more; that’s interesting.
Is it just because they’re at home on their phones? They’re not drinking either.
Interesting to see how those utterly terrifying adverts in the 90s really stopped everyone taking heroine. That and watching trainspotting.
They should probably do something similar for ketamine.
They’re jus doing steroids and not having sex
Matthew Perry makin an impact on ket use.
On the coke one you can see exactly when Mcat got banned lol same with e but slightly less pronounced
Did you save the last slot for TikTok?
Idk what the reasons are, but one good thing about teens sitting at home occupied by video games, is they’re not just bored on the streets getting offered drugs, and accepting them because they’re bored.
And also education probably helps. I think a lot more teens and young adults are more aware of the risks of drug taking
the kids don’t sniff glue anymore (squints, checks data source) uh, innit
Shit, it seems we really did a lot of drugs in the 90’s. That LSD graph looks about right, lol. The summer of 1995 was very trippy.
Truly the most boring generation. The music is gonna suck
Interesting to not see a graph labelled as spice. It’s very popular in the prison community, even with the younger inmates.
Bros gettin ripped n sniffin glue
Everybody agrees the 90s were mad fun
Ahoy SpongeBob, I’ve just overdosed on Ketamine and about to die. Argg argg argg.
Zero shot this amphetamine data is correct. Amphetamine prescriptions were up 800% from 95-2015, and its commonly known that adderall etc are widely shared or sold by patients [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5338115/](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5338115/)
What caused the stop to the poppers and glue data?
Looks like the tell tale drops signs of incomplete final year data.
Mephedrone burned too bright 🕊️🕊️🕊️
Looks like glue is back on the menu fellas
Oh to be young and with some glues
Hmm whats so good about ketamine? Makes you want to try it
Now for the real drug. Social Media (vs Mental Illness)
Ketamine because of fuckface Elon….?
Glues back on the menu boys!
Why no data on glues after about 2000? Did they get stuck?
No wonder everybody is so depressed – nobody is doing LSD anymore.
They are too busy staring at their phones.
Data is beautiful, but self reported survey data is not to be taken at face value. The only real “trend” you can take from this is which drugs are “socially acceptable” enough for an individual to report.
There have been studies that use waste water as an indicator for illicit drug use in a localized population, but this data is specifically pulled from self report. Anyone want to make a claim about how honest 16-24 year old people are about their drug use?
What does the Y axis represent where what is x 2?
God I remember that Mephedrone peak. Everything stank of piss, and it was incredibly moreish.
They why are my drug prices so high?
I immediately find any study that includes Ecstasy and Amphetamines but not MDMA suspect unless they clearly define what they mean by Ecstasy
Considering how depressed most people are these days I’d say these graphs are accurate
Everything trending down in 2025? Yeah.. right.. bollocks.