Increase of cocaine use in EU
Drug use in the European Union is on the increase, with cocaine and ecstasy seeing the biggest jump. Some EU countries are catching up to the US in terms of cocaine use. A report states that over 9 million Europeans are using, or have used cocaine. Spain and the UK saw the biggest increases.
“Spain, a smugglers’ gateway to the European cocaine market, and Great Britain show the highest numbers of cocaine users with roughly four percent of adult citizens having tried it in the last year. “It is time to realize that cocaine has turned into a simple street drug. It is no longer a substance for the elite,” said Wolfgang Goetz, director of the EMCDDA while presenting the report in the European Parliament on Thursday (24 November). Amphetamine-based drug ecstasy ranked second among drugs of choice in several of the participating countries. Consumption was particularly high in Britain, Spain, France and the Czech Republic.”
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Administrator @ November 25, 2005