Europe: Cannabis in short supply, Cocaine becoming stimulant drug of choice for many young Europeans
Polydrug use is now a central feature of the European drug phenomenon, says the report, making a simple substance-specific analysis no longer realistic.
On this point EMCDDA Director Wolfgang Götz concludes: ‘Analysis of the public health impact of drug use today needs to take into account the complex picture of the inter-related consumption of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and tobacco. Focusing on trends in one substance can be misleading, if the interrelationship between different types of drug is ignored’.
Annual report 2005: the state of the drugs problem in Europe
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Over 62 million Europeans have tried cannabis
The EMCDDA estimates that over 62 million Europeans (or over 20% of all adults) have ever tried cannabis and around 20 million (over 6% of all adults) have used it in the last year. Around 9.5 million (almost 4% of all adults), are classified as current users, and roughly 3 million young adults, mostly young males, are estimated to be daily or almost daily, users.
