EU Issues Annual Counterdrug Report and European Parliament Calls for Action

On November 22, the EU drugs agency and the European Parliament each issued recommendations for counterdrug policy. This article reviews the two policies. On November 22, 1999, the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) issued its fourth Annual Report on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union. The report finds that cannabis is the illegal substance most frequently used in all EU countries with more than 40 million people EU-wide having tried it. Heroin is the most problematic drug and three to five million people in the EU could have tried it at least once….[more]