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. 2016 Feb 25;18(2):e38. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4033

Table 2.

Variation over time of relative popularity indexes (%) for drugs found by Google search, by date.


May 1,
2012
October 1,
2012
January 1,
2013
July 1,
2013
February 1,
2014
June 20,
2014
max(Ni)a 42,600,000 55,800,000 61,900,000 68,400,000 85,600,000 389,000,000
Drug






Alcohol 100 100 100 100 100 100

Cannabis 6.3 5.9 6.9 7.7 10.1 15.2

Cocaine 10.5 9.4 10.3 10.4 11.4 15.1

LSDb 6.4 6.8 7.9 8.8 8.8 12.5

Heroin 8.8 9.1 10.0 10.4 11.0 12.0

Ecstasy 6.2 5.1 5.6 6.1 6.6 11.0

GHBc 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.5 1.7 6.0

Methadone 1.8 2.1 2.2 2.0 1.7 3.4

Butane 1.8 2.1 2.3 2.3 2.2 3.0

Khat 1.3 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.6 2.7

Amphetamine 1.2 1.5 2.2 1.6 1.6 2.3

Methamphetamine 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 2.3

Ketamine 2.6 2.3 2.2 1.9 1.6 2.2

Buprenorphine 1.0 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 1.6

Benzodiazepines 1.7 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.0 1.2

Mephedrone 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.5

amax(Ni): drug with the highest frequency of hits (highest number of websites where that keyword is found).

bLSD: lysergic acid diethylamide.

cGHB: gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.