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EU Drug Markets Report 2019

The EU Drug Markets Report 2019 is the third comprehensive overview of illicit drug markets in the European Union by the EMCDDA and Europol. A more recent version of this publication is...

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Highlights from the EU Drug Markets Report for policy and practice

This short publication presents the main highlights from the EU Drug Markets Report 2019, targeting policy and practice.

Infographic showing overview of NPS in Europe

Infographic: new psychoactive substances (NPS) overview — substances reported to the EU Early Warning System since 1997

This conceptual graphic from the EU Drug Markets Report 2019 presents an overview of new psychoactive substances (NPS) reported to the EU Early Warning System since 1997.

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New report highlights wide-ranging impacts of EU drug markets on health and security

Europeans are spending at least EUR 30 billion on drugs each year at retail level, making the drug market a major source of income for organised crime groups in the European Union...

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Video: EU Drug Markets Report 2019 - highlights

This video presents the highlights for the EU Drug Markets Report 2019, the third comprehensive overview of illicit drug markets in the European Union by the EMCDDA and Europol.

idu prevalence

Infographic: injecting drug use: most recent estimates of prevalence of injecting any drug in the last year and main drug injected

nps notified to ews

Infographic: number and categories of new psychoactive substances notified to the EU Early Warning System for the first time, 2005-18

trends in numbers of presentations in hospitals

Infographic: trends in the number of presentations to sentinel hospitals related to selected drugs

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New city study results published on drugs in syringes

A new EMCDDA Rapid Communication, published on 29 May, presents the results of an innovative project to gather information on the substances used by people who inject drugs , by chemically analysing...

Graphic showing the percentage of syringes by detected drug group, by site in Helsinki, for the 2017 pilot study of the ESCAPE project.

Percentage of syringes by detected drug group, by site, Helsinki, ESCAPE study 2017

Graphic showing the percentage of syringes by detected drug group, by site in Finland, for the 2017 pilot study of the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) project.