DRUGS CRISIS: Rising drug potency poses greater danger

The purity and potency of all the main illegal drugs is increasing in Europe, posing heightened dangers to users, drug experts have warned.

The EU drugs agency is also concerned at the “potential for future heroin epidemics” as a result of record crops of opium in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, so-called new psychoactive drugs continue to be manufactured at a dizzying rate of around two per week, with 101 new substances in 2013 and 41 so far this year.