A U.N. report shows that the "runaway train of drug addiction" has slowed, with estimated levels of global use holding steady for the third year in a row. Afghanistan's opium production, however, increased dramatically.The 2007 World Drug Report released Tuesday by the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime found that 200 million people -- or 5 percent of the world's population aged between 15 and 64 -- used drugs at least once in the previous 12 months.
Of those, an estimated 25 million were so-called problem drug users, or individuals who are heavily drug dependent. That estimate also remained unchanged from the year before.
"Recent data show that the runaway train of drug addiction has slowed down," said UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa.
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