Heroin

Today we mark the International Day for Drug Abuse.

According to the National Focal Points, cannabis is the most commonly used drug in Bulgaria. More and more women and young people are reaching it.

27% of our students have smoked marijuana at least once in their lives. For the last 16 years, their share has increased by 13%.

Drug addicts are being treated and led back to normal life without using any medication, at a rehabilitation center in Turkey's northwestern Balıkesir province.       

Turkish security forces seized 10,000 opiate pills and around 140 grams (0.30 pounds) of cocaine during anti-narcotics operation, a security source said on June 22.

Turkish police seized on June 19 some 103.2 kilograms of heroin in the eastern province of Van.

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).

A new report points to an increase in the use of cannabis in Greece along with a significant decrease in that of heroin and other opioids.

Doctor is accused of killing 25 patients from the age of 37 to 85 in Ohio, Fox News reported.
According to the channel, prosecutors say that 43-year-old William Husel, who worked as a hospital doctor, deliberately prescribed potentially lethal doses of the painkiller fentanyl to 25 patients "who have no purpose but to speed up their death."

A 66-year-old Greek national has been arrested at Athens International Airport for trying to smuggle more than 5 kilograms of heroin into the country, police said Monday.
The suspect was arrested on Sunday after arriving on a flight from Johannesburg via Zurich.

The methadone's supplies that treats 3,000 drug addicts runs out because the supplier company contract has expired.

When he starts taking heroin, Georgi Alexandrov still does not believe he is an addict.

One night he fails to fall asleep without the drug.

Turkish police seized yesterday some 127.1 kilograms of heroin in two separate operations in the eastern province of Van.