Drug info - News: Cocaine reached record levels in EU

[Mint boi]

From RTE.ie

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Cocaine use reaches record levels in EU
Thursday, 22 November 2007 13:36
More Europeans are consuming cocaine than ever before, as its price falls, according to the EU drug agency.
'It is estimated that cocaine has been used at least once by more than 12 million Europeans, representing almost 4% of all adults,' it said.
At least four and a half million Europeans used cocaine last year, up from three and a half million in 2005.


This has coincided with record hauls of the drug in recent years, with an estimated 107 tonnes seized in 2005, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said in its report of the EU plus Norway and Turkey.

'Cocaine is now, after cannabis, the second most commonly used illicit drug in many EU member states and in the EU as a whole,' said the agency.
Adults aged between 15 and 34 in Spain and Britain are the biggest consumers of cocaine, whose main entry point into the EU remains the Iberian peninsula, with Portugal rising in importance.
Experts say growing demand for the drug and a strong euro have increased the pressure for South American drug cartels to break through Europe's tight borders.
The agency said that although cocaine prices had fallen in recent years, a gram of the drug can still fetch up to €120 in some European countries.

[adamdalad]

according to the times over 800,000 of those are from the UK