Brussels, 30/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA, Lisbon) has just published a report entitled "Assistance to drug users in European Union prisons". The report proposes a scientific approach to the problem of drugs, which is considered as one of the major challenges of the current penitentiary systems. Out of a prison population of 350,000, at least 180,000 take drugs, which appear to be easily available in many prisons.
The report,...