EU Study, London is the European Capital of cocaine

The city of Zurich City exceeds and is at the top of the charts for ecstasy and opiates. Surprise for cannabis use: the Serbian Novi Sad exceeds Amsterdam and Paris. Alarm content in Italy

Cocaine addiction

BRUSSELS - What is the largest consumer of cocaine capital of Europe ? According to the European Drug Report 2014 official study of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction , is London , which outperforms other 41 large cities of the continent. The result comes after some chemical surveys carried out in 2013 . Nearby wastewater generated from a sample of one thousand citizens of the British capital , in fact, have been found well 711 mg of cocaine per day .

Alarm in UK . Second , in this special classification , Zurich with 679 mg . By comparison , according to the same analysis , in Amsterdam were detected 393 mg , compared with 223 in Milan. The consumption of ecstasy in London is among the highest in the continent. And other alarming figures of the British government reveal that the 8 , 2 per cent of adults in the UK has used drugs and about 2.6 per cent of those heavy . It is estimated that about 700 thousand people , aged between 16 and 59 years old, take cocaine every year in the country.

Drug related deaths declining. However, despite the still widespread use of drugs , the study points out that the overall consumption in Europe has been declining since peaking in 2008 , when it exploded a tough international economic and financial crisis . In this regard, in 2012, according to the study , there were 6100 deaths from overdose in the Old Continent . Given below , however, the 6500 deaths of 2011 and 7100 in 2009. Higher rates of drug victims were registered in Estonia (191 per million people ), Norway (76) and Ireland (70). In Italy, only 10, while the EU average is stuck at 17 .

Prague the capital of methamphetamine. Other points highlighted in the study : the citizens of Eastern Europe , primarily in Prague according to the study , tend to consume more methamphetamine ( whose use is growing, overall ) than in Western Europe , where instead depopulate cocaine, cannabis and ectasy . Amphetamine use , however, is extended on average across the continent .

UK- duel Estonia for opiates . Regarding the use of opiates, however, even here the UK is the host . According to the European study , in fact, is the country's accustomed to that substance , with an estimated cases per thousand that oscillates within a range between 7.9 and 8.3 . Even higher , however , it seems the use of opioids in Latvia , although here the range is wider ( 5.4 to 10.7 ) .

Cannabis: Novi Sad beats Amsterdam. With regard to cannabis, however, another study of the "Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology" took over as the city where there are no traces of hashish and marijuana in wastewater is Novi Sad , Serbia, which even exceeds the discounted Amsterdam. Third the French capital Paris.

Italy . Our country instead , according to the study , the second is for " problem opiate users " behind Hungary, the substance that is still in mid-table for general use. The consumption of cannabis and cocaine in Italy, however, remains the European average , although Rome for the " white powder " is exceeded only rated dall'irrangiungibile UK, Spain, Ireland , Denmark and the Netherlands. While the consumption of amphetamines and ectasy is among the lowest on the continent.