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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7819

13 October 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/drugs
Annual report from European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction show sometimes contradictory trends - Globally, seriousness of problem not falling

Lisbon, 12/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), European Union agency situated in the Portuguese capital, made public, this week, its annual report on "the state of the drug phenomenon in the EU". Through this report, the Monitoring Centre:

1) Estimated at around 1.5 million the number of "problematic" consumers of drugs in the Union. For the EMCDDA, the "problematic consumers" are the drug addicts using intravenous means and those...

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