Drugs and highly effective people

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The Survey proves that Australians are drinking like fish, with alcohol taking out the top spot as the most commonly used drug.

Every day Simon gets up at 5.30am to do yoga. Afterwards he heads to his full-time job at a university. Sometimes, he throws in some volunteer work as well.

"I'd say I'm a pretty busy person," Simon, not his real name, says.

The reason he doesn't want his name used is because there's one other part of his lifestyle Simon is explaining.

"I would use drugs a couple of times a month," he says. "Hallucinogens, mainly, and MDMA".

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He also uses cannabis and alcohol, although he tends to only drink one or two nights a week.

"I'm reasonably healthy, I look after myself a lot of the time, I'm probably not what a lot of people who are anti-drug have as their stereotype of a drug user," he says.

But Simon is a pretty good example of the type of drug user identified by the Global Drug Survey, conducted this year in Australia in partnership with Fairfax Media.

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