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 "title": "Adults who used drugs in the last year, England and Wales",
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  "Adults aged 16 to 59 in households who told the Crime Survey for England and Wales that they had used a drug in the last year; any drug includes cannabis, and a Class A drug includes cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms, heroin and methadone. The ONS gives no figures for the years ending March 2021 and March 2022, when it suspended the survey during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, so the chart breaks there; to 1999 the survey covered every other calendar year, and each year to March since the year ending March 2002.",
  "The Office for National Statistics publishes these as accredited official statistics."
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  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:51:29Z",
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