We looked at the drug realities of teenagers with data. Numbers are one of the best ways to show reality, but when I saw the numbers actually coming out, it was more shocking than I expected.

SBS's data journalism team 'Mabujakchim' analyzed the results of a total of 10,4 drug detections requested by the National Institute of Forensic Science (hereinafter referred to as Gukguasu) together with Kukguasu.

In this analysis, we analyzed the teenage drugs in detail in 2296-year-old increments to get a closer look at the cross-section of the top 10 drugs. According to the results of the analysis, there were 1,10 cases of positive drug tests in the urine and hair of people aged 19 to 1. The number of administers reached 290. What traits did you find in them?


- Drug appraisal analysis period: January 2022 - December 1
- Appraisal referral agencies: National police, prosecutors, customs, probation offices, etc.

Drugs are done faster by men... Is it true?

According to the "2022 Drug Offender Statistics" released by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office earlier this year, men are exposed to drugs at a much higher rate, with 73% (1,3429) and 27% (4966,10) women. Conventional wisdom holds that men use more drugs than women.


Did teenagers show similar trends? I do. In our analysis, 10% (290) of the 61 teenage drug positives were men and 177% (39) were women, so teenage drug users were not significantly different from adults in terms of gender.

However, one thing to keep an eye on is the under-113 age group. If you look at the chart above, it shows that women under the age of 10 use more drugs than men. Among those under the age of 15, 15 women tested positive for drugs, almost twice as many as the 15 male users of the same age.

Even at the youngest age group to dabble in drugs, there were far more female doers. The youngest of the dosing victims identified in this analysis were 23 years old and 12th graders, for a total of 2 people. Of these, 12 were females and 6 male.

Methamphetamine (meth) was detected in women under the age of 7 with 6 cases, followed by benzodiazepine and Z drugs with 1 cases each, and other anti-drug drugs with 15 cases. It is unusual that the highly addictive meth has been detected most often in women under the age of 14.

On the other hand, males under the age of 8 had 4 cases of other anti-drug drugs, 15 cases of opium alkaloids, and 15 cases of benzodiazepines.


When do you dabble intensively on drugs at the age of 17 and in the first year of high school?


We classified the five most commonly detected ingredients in teenagers, metamphetamine, synthetic opioids, benzodiazepines, ketamine, and MDMA as the "top five drugs" and looked at when they started taking drugs in earnest.

The spike in drug use begins at the age of 10, when they enter high school. Teen drug users, who account for 5.5 percent of drug users, use a combination of high-intensity substances, including cannabis, ketamine, fentanyl, often referred to as the "zombie drug," and cocaine, which are highly potent.

The substances you come into contact with also begin to diversify. In fact, the number of narcotic substances detected under the age of 17 was 10, but a total of 85 substances were detected in people over the age of 2. Six substances, including hallucinogens, cocaine, synthetic cannabis, LSD, other amphetamines, and other cannabis, have only been detected in high school students and older. It is a substance that is called a relatively strong drug.

This means that as they move into their late teens, they begin to dabble in a variety of drugs that are more intense and varied. Experts say we should be vigilant about this trend.

Kim Sun-chun, director of the Daejeon Research Institute, said, "The impact of teenagers could be even greater, and they will be another consumer and supplier. "If they get into their 17s and 11s, it's going to be a disaster."


There was also a difference between men and women in the detected substance. Methamphetamine, commonly referred to as methamphetamine, was detected in teenage females in 17 cases, followed by ketamine (17), synthetic opioids (6), MDMA (10) and cannabis (10).


Why do teenagers 'cultivate'...? The top 10 drugs seen by keywords are



This time, we looked for drug use trends among teenagers in the "Case Overview," which summarizes each case. The case of a teenage drug user caught by the police is well documented in the outline. The most common words in the overview of teenage drug cases are represented by word cloud.

(The rest of the story is from the soup)