While a lot has to do with surveys, there have been other works that have tried to estimate these numbers differently.
I don’t have a citation, but I remember seeing a presentation of researchers that tried to approximate the volume of drugs in the black market based on the street price of drugs, i.e., making some educated assumptions about the cost to manufacture, and the profit margins required to sustain several layers of distribution, what configuration best explains the standard street price of a drug.
I thought it was cool.
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