HitRed wrote:Does China have a drug problem?
Depends what you mean by a problem. I've heard in some southern cities party drugs like MDMA, meth and ketamine are relatively common, but I don't get the impression that across the country as a whole there is much use of drugs (apart from alcohol). They're certainly nowhere near as much a part of everyday life in China as they are in the UK.
According to
this random web page by some drug addiction clinic in the States, the five countries where the most people take illicit drugs are Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, the US and the UK.
Russia, Afghanistan and the US also top
this list of countries by opiate use.
If you include alcohol on your list of drugs - which you should, because it is
the most harmful drug in existence - then pretty much everywhere in Europe, all the WASP countries and a few places in Africa and South America all have an
alcohol problem (you need to consume less than 7.3 liters per year to be
considered 'low risk').