Neuropsychology

The cultivation of the coca crop in Colombia has hit record levels for two years in a row, making the country the world's major producer of cocaine, according to the US State Department's annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.

The Greek financial crime unit (SDOE) released video footage and photos of Greek enforcement agencies raiding a compound in the area of Loutropyrgos, located 30km northwest of Athens, where they confiscated 635,000 amphetamine based pills planned to be shipped to Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.

The financial crimes unit (SDOE) announced on Friday that it had discovered a lab producing large quantities of fenethylline, a synthetic drug reported to be widely used for recreational purposes in the Middle East as well as by fighters in Syria to boost their courage on the battlefield, where it is known by the brand name Captagon.

We all have things in our past that we’d like to forget – bad break-ups, traumatic experiences, loss. No matter how hard we try, these memories can continue to haunt us, occasionally triggering conditions such as anxiety, phobias, or post-traumatic stress disorder.

A number of people were detained in anti-drug operations in Istanbul's Beyoğlu, Şişli, Kağıthane and Ümraniye districts, as well as provinces across Turkey, early on Dec. 5, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

An investigating magistrate was Monday questioning a 26-year-old Iranian man who was arrested on the weekend on drug smuggling charges.

Officers were acting on a tip-off when they apprehended the suspect while he was riding in a taxi in Athens and allegedly found 2.2 kilograms of opium paste - one of the key ingredients in heroin - hidden in cardboard cylinders.

Afghanistan saw a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year, a sharp rise owing to favorable weather, growing insecurity and declining international support for counter-narcotics operations, the U.N. said on Oct. 23.

A cannabis plant has been found by police in the southern Bulgarian town of Brezovo, authorities say.

A specially equipped system that faciliates the growing of cannabis has been discovered during the operation, according to the Interior Ministry, quoted by daily 24 Chasa.

A drug-dealing ring that was active in the center of Athens was unraveled on Monday, with police arresting six gang members - five Albanian nationals, aged 25, 27, 29, 36 and 47 and one Greek woman, 20.

Police confiscated more than 26 kilos of cannabis, a pistol, 26,000 euros and two cars after raids in homes and cars in the districts of Kypseli and Neos Cosmos.

A total of 30% of 16-year old youths in Bulgaria have tried drugs, while 86% of them have tried alcohol.