Sources see notes at end of chapter.

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the time they reach teh age of 19, only one thirs of addicts are gils.

Drug abuse does not discriminate between Member States, between men and women, wealth or poverty, high or humble positions.

The municipality of Terneuzen has put up road signs showing the way to the coffee shops.

There has been a definite amalgamation of English speakers and Afrikaners in the white apartheid government, and it is particularly difficult at the moment to estimate what pressure the business community can exert on this system.

Social services, treatment, correctional system and 93 injected in the lust year (mostly amphétamines).

Instead, it is much better to distinguish between soft drugs and hard drugs, and to focus the fight against hard drugs on informing a young generation on the very adverse consequences of taking drugs.

Germany will therefore continue to treat dealing in illicit soft and hard drugs as a punishable criminal offence.

In practice the switch to hard drugs has also been shown to be much easier after all, the use of drugs is already accepted.

We reiterate that our position is that a just and lasting solution in South Africa can only be found through peaceful negotiations and dialogue.

Hard drug taking is frequently Interspersed with the taking of barbiturates, prescribed drugs and alcohol.

We also know what Mrs Buitenweg wants, namely to legalise both soft and hard drugs.

Three months later, as I feared, the Foreign Affairs Council agreed on superficial and ineffectual sanctions.

A ban on soft drugs simply leads to young people rebelling and eases their move onto the use of hard drugs.

Against this, many people will claim that Cannabis is a stepping stone to hard drug use.

'It is pitiful that hard drugs have to be bought on the illegal circuit.'

In the North, it is generally believed that any free trade in milder drugs lowers the threshold that makes it possible to move on to using hard drugs.

Ensure substantially improved results as regards the fight against drugs trafficking, especially hard drugs such as heroine and cocaine.

Forthe hard drug users the plausible range of X is 23 36 (Table 4).

The total number of hard drug users registered by the police for the years 1982 1991 was E 65,000.

This would lead to the criminalisation of the users, who would then need to make their purchases from criminals who trade in hard drugs.

The more liberal drug policies of the Netherlands arising from the legal distinction made by the Government between hard and soft drugs continues to be of concern to the Board.

Prevention must cover both hard and soft drugs, i.e. all types of drug wherever they are used.

The use of drugs of all kinds, particularly the so called hard drugs, is becoming more and more dangerously widespread in all the Community countries.

Study No. of Ethnic Resident Other Hard Nonfriends Dutch ethnic nationalities drug userminorities Own Other user

A distinction should be made here between 'hard' and 'soft' drugs and between the possession of illegal drugs for personal use and actual dealing.

personal identifier date of first contact with the institution date of last contact with the institution date of onset of hard drug use date of onset of injecting drug use type of drugs used.

He uses examples drawn from studies of heroin and hard drug users in Germany.

We need to look in a serious way at the decriminalisation of cannabis, and to get serious about serious drugs.

. (NL) The use of drugs, be they hard or soft, takes people away from useful activities and renders them less healthy.

In 1990, in Germany,the range was between 0.5 per cent for drug addiction, 0.9 per cent for current drugusers and 2.0 per cent for ever use of hard drugs.

Statistics show that the quantity of hard drugs seized in Africa in 1991 was six times that reported in 1990.

It is, however, at its most fatal where it is attacking our youth, because in their hands lies the future of Europe.

(NL) Those who organise international trafficking in hard drugs are only concerned with making money on the back of the suffering of others.

All the measures employed should give the same message to our young people we do not accept any use of illicit drugs we will never approve of a distinction being drawn between soft drugs and hard drugs.

We must resist the temptation to engage in unilateral action to change the shape of the problem by considering the legalization of drugs or their classification as soft or hard drugs.

Table 2 Self reported hard drug use among high risk populations in four field studies in Amsterdam Year N. Age Heroin Cocaine Amphetamines Ecstasy

It does not mean punishing the sick, or seeking to set examples at the expense of victims.

Many young people experience the use of soft drugs as an inalienable freedom and there are also profiteers who happily make people dependent on the use of expensive hard drugs.

Estimates of the number of hard drug users in France are not very precise, varying between 150,000 and 300,000 (Lert, 1993).

These methods estimated the number of hard drug users in Germanyin 1992 to range between 90,000 and 150,000 (IFT, 1994).

The participating institutions (n 22) were asked tocomplete a short document for each client known to use hard drugs.

That would be sure to take account of the actual situation of all the Member States and not only of the two which have the highest and the lowest rate respectively.

However, users of hard drugs by injection are a more elusive group that is therefore bound to be condemned to social exclusion, as the report indicates.