Publications database

In the EU action plan on drugs (2000–04), the third strategy target is 'to increase substantially the number of successfully treated addicts'. No aggregated data exist at European level to directly measure...

The presence of drugs and drug use has fundamentally changed the prison reality over the past two decades and, nowadays, all countries in Europe experience major problems due to drugs and drug-related...

Concern has been growing in the EU about increasing use of cocaine; however, actual trends in cocaine use and their consequences across the EU are difficult to verify. Firstly, national data, for...

This Selected issue looks at prevalence and trends, determinants and consequences and harm-reduction responses regarding infectious diseases such as HIV, Aids, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, other STDs, TB, endocarditis and Clostridium outbreak.

This Selected issue completes the data and analysis provided in the 2001 Annual report on the state of the drugs problem in the European Union with a summary of the main questions...

This Selected issue looks at the prosecution of drug-related offences such as possession of heroin, property offences and selling drugs.

Substitution treatment first appeared in the EU in the late 1960s in response to emerging opiate use. As such use spread, so too did substitution services, even though their practice varied —...

Women-specific drug issues have not, to date, been systematically examined by EU drug-information systems. However, most Member States do address the needs of drug-dependent women through specialised programmes, although their extent and...