Drug treatment frustrated by rise in multiple drug use, says EU report

YOUNG people are using a multiple of different drugs, posing significant problems in terms of treatment, found a report published by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).

And while heroin use has stabilised, bumper opium crops in Afghanistan could reverse that trend.

In the first EMCDDA annual report to cover all 25 EU member states and Norway, the report said a number of factors suggested a possible rise in drug use: