
European drug markets worth €30 billion
EMCDDA finds Europeans are spending at least EUR 30 billion on drugs each year, making the drug market a major source of income for organised crime groups.
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EMCDDA finds Europeans are spending at least EUR 30 billion on drugs each year, making the drug market a major source of income for organised crime groups.
Europe, both as individual countries and, collectively, as the EU may have good intelligence about the way the European drug markets work but has limited impact on disrupting them.
New Home Office report explores the impact of a heroin shortage on drug markets and the drug use and treatment seeking behaviours of drug users.
Cuts in public expenditure have resulted in very well-publicised shortages of prison staff. It may well be that these figures fall in 2014/15 , not because there are less drugs getting into our prisons, but because there are less prison staff to detect them.
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