Drug use increasing in candidate countries.

From: Europe-East | Date: April 24, 2003 | Copyright information

Candidate countries have become a clear target for drug consumption, according to the EU drugs agency, the Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. In most candidate countries, "recreational drug use and experimentation are increasingly becoming an integral part of youth culture", said the Agency last week.

"There has been an increase in experimental drug use in the general population in all candidate countries of central and eastern Europe in the past 10 years", and the trend is particularly visible in schools, with a doubling between 1995 and ...

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