Bulgarian Students are the First in the EU in Amphetamines Use

Bulgarian studnets and young people remain at the top in Europe using amphetamines and anabolic steroids, according to data from recent drug surveys in EU countries.

The data is from a study among teenagers aged 15-16 years and adults up to 30 years old, BNR reports.

Every third of respondents indicated that at least once in their life they had used drugs, while for the other countries the average values ​​were nearly 2 times lower.

90% of the cases are marijuana and about 6% say amphetamines, methamphetamines, ecstasy and cocaine.

The first use is most often between 14 and 16 years.

The toxicologist from Varna Military Hospital, Dr Marieta Yovcheva, is categorical: "There is nothing merry or safe in the "merry tea ". On the contrary, under the term "cheerful tea", "herbal incense" and other street names is an extremely dangerous new group of drugs - synthetic cannabinoids. These substances are many times more poisonous than cannabis.

Toxicity of these ingredients used, etc. "Cheerful teas" and bath salts are many times higher than those we have seen in poisoning with marijuana and other hemp derivatives. "

Dr. Ivan Dobrinov, a psychiatrist at the state psychiatric hospital in Radnevo, is often confronted with the severe consequences of drug use: "They are basically importing these substances from China. They register them as something else and they cross the border like bath salts, such as flavors, flower fertilizer or anything else. Most often they are packed, cut and distributed here. For example, the synthetic cannabinoids are imported into a white powder which dissolves in some solvents here and soak or spray any dried substances that can be absolutely harmless - the plant incense, some tea, and can be processed and...