An overview of European trends and developments Roland Simon ECAD Meeting 2011, Varna.

An overview of European

trends and developments

Roland Simon

ECAD Meeting 2011, Varna

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

Community Agency

Established: 1993

Staff: 102

The drug information hub in Europe

MarketDrug use

ConsequencesInterventions

StandardsPrison

InternetLicit substances

Participating Countries:

27 EU Member States, Croatia, Turkey and Norway

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StandardsPrison

TrendsMarketDrug useConsequencesInterventions

DevelopmentsStandards and quality of interventionsDrugs in prisonDrugs and the internetDrugs and licit psychotropic substances

Data: Annual Report 2010 + more recent details

Herbal:289 000 seizures (250% of 2003)90 tons: Turkey 31t, Germany 9t

Resin 369 000 seizures (increased)900 t (increased last years)More than half of seizures/amount: Spain

Proper balance?

CannabisMarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Number of seizures increasing for last 20 years: 96 000

Quantities seized decreased since 2006: 67 tonnes

New smuggling techniques

Cocaine seizuresMarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Heroin seizures and quantities seized

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StandardsPrison

New Drugs – “Legal Highs”

• New groups & large number of new unregulated compounds

• Marketed in various combinations or as products laced with synthetic compounds

• Difficulties in analytical identification

• Little or no knowledge of pharmacology, toxicity, safety profile

• Increasing interaction between the “legal-highs” market & organised crime

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StandardsPrison

Internet Licit substances

75.5 million Europeans have ever used cannabis (22.5 %)

23 million in the past year (6.8 %)

17 million are between 15 and 34 years old

Trends mostly downwards (not Easter Europe)

Cannabis

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Internet

Cannabis use: last year prevalence

among young adultsMarket

Drug useConsequences

Interventions

StandardsPrison

14 million Europeans have ever used cocaine (4.1 %) 4 million during the past year (1.3 %)

3 million are between 15 and 34 years old

Cocaine

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Cocaine use: last year prevalence among young adults in Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA

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Cocaine use: last year prevalence among young adults

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StandardsPrison

2.5 million young adults (1.7 %) have used ecstasy in the last year

1.5 million young adults (1.2 %) have used amphetamines in the last year

Ecstasy and amphetamines

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StandardsPrison

Internet

Licit substances

About 1.35 million (EU & Norway): or 0.4 % of the adult population (0.1-0.8%)

Injectors estimates around half of this or less and appear to be still decreasing

Opioids

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

750 000 to one million in the EU and Norway —0.26 % of the adult population

Decrease in the proportion of injectors among opioid users entering treatment

Injecting drug users

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StandardsPrison

Reports of problem opioid use in Russia and Ukraine (UNODC): 2−4 times the EU average

High proportion of drug injectors and levels of HIV infections

Problem opioid use in neighbouring countries

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Trends in newly reported HIV infections in injecting drug users in four EU Member States reporting high rates of infection

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StandardsPrison

Drug-induced deaths: change 2004 to 2007/8

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Around 1 000 cocaine-related deaths were reported in 2008

Marked increases in Spain and the United Kingdom

Cocaine deaths

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StandardsPrison

Prevention

• Environmental strategies: School policies

• Universal prevention: Normative beliefs, social competence, parenting

• Selective prevention: Socially excluded groups, vulnerable families

• Indicated prevention Early childhood problems etc.

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Prevention: Provision of selective prevention

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StandardsPrison

Large investments in treatment

At least 1 million Europeans undergo drug treatment every year

Major increase over the last decades: new providers and new needs

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StandardsPrison

NL. UK

MT, AT LU

SI, ES, HR

DE, IE

PL, GR

BEFR, HU

LV, LT, BG

CZ, RO, NOEE

ES, FR

DK, IT, NL, AT, PT, SK, SE, UK

CZ, DE

IE, GR, LT, LU

BE, EE, LV

MT, HR

CY, RO

1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

MMT HDBT

Year or introduction of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and high dosage buprenorphine treatment (HDBT) in Europe

Large investments in treatment: opioid substitution treatment

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StandardsPrison

Estimated proportion of problem opioid users in substitution treatmentMarket

Drug useConsequencesInterventions

StandardsPrison

Trends in treatment entries by primary drug

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Treatment entries by primary drug: New clients

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Older drug users in drug treatment

Treatment starters above 4010 year before: usually below 10%

Today: 19%Portugal: 28%

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Older drug users in drug treatment

Mainly heroin addicts

Infectious diseases, mental health problems, living conditions more difficult

Premature aging

Needed: special services/facilities or closer collaboration between general health care and drug care

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StandardsPrison

Reintegration

• 47% outpatient clients unemployed

• 40 % clients entering treatment: no secondary education

• paid employment important part in reintegration into society and long term treatment outcome

-----> Focus on employability

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Guidelines in Europe

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Comulative number of EU countries introducing guidelines in drug addiction(by year of introduction)

CY, RO, TR, NO

PT, DK, HR

LV, ESNL

FI, BG, HU

EE, GR, CZ, AT

BE, DEFR, LU

1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

Guidelines in Europe

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Treatment (TOTAL)

Not specified Psychosocial MT Detox Social Reint. Harmreduction

Alc + drugproblems

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StandardsPrison

Foto portale linee guida

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Situation

600 000 people in penal institutions in the EU

EU: 120/ 100.000, Russia: 629/100.000, US: 756/100.000

Reports of 10−30 % incarcerated because of drug law offences

Drug use prevalence much higher than among the general population

Increased overdose risk after prison release

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrisonInternet

Licit substances

Situation

Drug use prevalence much higher than among the general population

Entitlement to equivalent services as in the community

Risk reduction

Allows to reach highly problematic group

Possible effect on public health

MarketDrug use

Licit substances

Treatment in prison

Some countries recognise the need to develop specific strategies and interventions

Transfer of prison health to Ministries of Health; integration of drugs or health services in prison

Development of specific standards

MarketDrug use

Licit substances

Internet – an additional risk

170 online shops

Substances sold as ‘legal highs’

Rapid adaptation to control measures

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Internet – an additional resource

Information provision: warnings

Contacts to drug users (Cannabis, cocaine)

Internet based treatment

Mixed approaches

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StandardsPrison

Drugs and licit substances

Prevention: broader than drugs

Tobacco ban and cannabis regulations

Drugs policy vs. alcohol policy vs. policy on psychotropic substances

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

InternetLicit substanc

Drugs and licit substances

Overlapping target groups: multiple problems, substances, gambling, social conduct

Overlapping substances: “legal highs”, pharmaceutics

Overlapping objectives:limit access, reduce risks, avoid secondary problems, treat addictions …

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StandardsPrison

InternetLicit substanc

Conclusions

• Overall stable, partly decreasing• Concern: Cocaine, synthetic drugs, “legal highs”• Local hot spots: Crack cocaine, alcohol/cannabis, young opiate users• Interventions well developed, increased quality

• Challenges: new substances, new needs• Opportunities: new media, programmes,treatments

• Policy sets objectives• Carefull implementation needed• EMCDDA: monitoring and quality development

MarketDrug use

StandardsPrison

Internet

Thanks for your attention

More information under:

emcdda.europa.eu

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