DRUG REPORT
November 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLECSTASY has become Britain's number two illicit drug, overtaking amphetamines, warns a new European Union (EU) narcotics report alerting public health professional across Europe to increasing abuse of most recreational drugs. The best news highlighted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is that heroin use and new HIV infections are falling in western Europe, although they are increasing in many eastern European countries, such as the Baltic States. In its latest annual report, the European Union (EU) agency ...
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