The most Common Drug that Bulgarians Use is Cannabis

Young Bulgarians have used mostly cannabis in the last year, but heroin sends the most people to clinics, according to the annual report of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).

Cannabis have tried 10.3% of people between the ages of 14 and 34; followed by MDMA with 3.1% and amphetamines by 1.8%. The percentage has grown in recent years, starting at around 3% in 2005.

However, 58% of those entering the rehabilitation clinics used mainly heroin, 13% amphetamines and 10% cannabis.

Heroin - fewer new drug addicts, but more dangerous

The number of new cases of heroin treatment demand is small compared to the past, the levels of injecting use are decreasing and in the last decade the number of new cases of HIV infections associated with injecting drug use decreases each year by about 40 %.

But in a number of countries, especially in Eastern Europe, providing effective harm reduction and treatment measures is still insufficient. In addition, there has been a general increase over the past 5 years in the number of drug-related deaths, and this increase affects all age groups over 30 years. Drug delivery indicators reveal that the threat is likely to get worse, according to the report across Europe.

Laboratories for the production of morphine heroin using acetic anhydride, together with an increase in the number of seizures of morphine and opium, have shown that some heroin seizures are now being produced closer to consumer products than in recent years in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, markets in Europe.

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