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Drug use increases in Europe

The production of synthetic drugs in Europe is increasing, there are more and more narcotics of this type available in the European Union and the consumption of cocaine, crack, amphetamines and methamphetamines increased in some European cities between 2020 and 2021.

To this increasingly complex scenario related to the consumption, production and distribution of drugs on the European continent, there is added uncertainty about the impact that the current war in Ukraine will have on this “world”, with emphasis on the situation of Ukrainian drug addicts who were undergoing treatment or in need of it.

This portrait and the warnings/calls about the situation in the Old Continent with regard to drug consumption are the subject of the report released this Tuesday morning (June 14) by the European Observatory on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) .

In the 60 pages of the European Report on Drugs 2022: Trends and Developments, a portrait of each drug available in Europe (age of consumers, maximum and average prices on the market, average consumption, mortality, treatments, etc.) .

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