Is this just too yummy-sounding to correct?
B.C. report: 190,000 tried crystal meth in past year
Last Updated Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:36:37 EDT
CBC News
About 190,000 people in British Columbia have tried the drug crystal methamphetamine in the past year, according to a new study due to be released Friday.
But see here’s the thing:
Report to cabinet ministers inflated B.C. meth problem
Amy O’BrianVancouver Sun
June 10, 2005A report on crystal meth being presented today to health and justice ministers from the western provinces and territories contains an error that inflates the number of users in B.C. by about nine times.
The report, compiled by participants in a three-day summit in Vancouver last November, says about 190,000 people in B.C. used some type of amphetamine-type stimulant such as crystal meth in the year before the survey was done.
In fact, the number reflects those who have used some such substance in their lifetime.
[…] [Tim] Stockwell said a more accurate estimate—taken from the 2004 Canadian Addictions Survey—is that about 22,000, or 0.6 per cent of B.C. residents, used an amphetamine-type stimulant in the past year, not 190,000.
And for The Most Obvious Statement Of The Week Award, I present this:
Tim Stockwell, director of the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C., said Thursday the mistake magnifies the real problem.
Ya don’t say.
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