Drugs

Types of drugs

Cocaine

Main article: Cocaine

Marijuana

Main article: Marijuana

• Legalizing marijuana

Hashish

Hashish is the common name for a number of narcotic hemp products, which are cannabis resins made by pressing a powder obtained by drying and grinding or sieving dried leaves and sticky oily layers from the flowering tops of the plant. This substance is collected and pressed into briquettes, which can be plastic or solid, dry or powdered.

Kat (Miraa)

Main article: Kat (Miraa)

Captagon

Main article: Kaptagon

Amphetamine

Under the influence of amphetamine, brain cells are destroyed, memory, logical and associative thinking suffer, mental degradation occurs. Mucous membranes are burned by matter, non-healing ulcers appear on them. Physical and nervous exhaustion of the body occurs.

"It's like you're on your lap. The will disappears somewhere when you are in these states. I felt like a dead animal. I felt negative all the time. I talked to people and thought everyone was against me. If someone was positive, laughing, I was like, 'Bitch, why are you laughing? It's probably over me ', "a drug addict.

Heroin

Heroin causes psychoses and affects the entire human body. Use has irreversible consequences for health and the psyche. As of 2022, 70% of all drug deaths resulted from opioid use, including heroin.

'I could have overdosed in a day twice. I was so exhausted that I walked with difficulty, moved with a wand. There is not a single place on my body, my groin is cut, I almost lost my leg. I slept with women with HIV, I used drugs with infected people. It already did not care, "- drug addict.

Codeine

Codeine affects all internal organs and the respiratory system. The risk of cancer significantly increases.

"Two of my friends have already died, the standard cases are overdose. I saw his mother crying at the funeral of one of them. The only child. The second died in some basement, the police found him the next day. But most of all I was frightened by the living. More precisely, this is no longer life, "- drug addict.

ACID

With LSD, paranoia can develop. The substance negatively affects the work of all organs and internal systems. Creepy hallucinations provoke panic attacks and anxiety.

Mephedrone

Mephedrone affects not only the body, but also the mental state of a person. It leads to serious social problems, provokes the gradual degradation of the person. Most of the effects caused by mephedrone use are irreversible.

'I've lost my health in these two years. Heart, joints, nervous system... My teeth crack due to mephedrone, it washes calcium out of the body... Mental problems fell on me: I almost committed suicide after all this... Friends turned away from me. Life has generally become worse. I am sure that I will not live at least another five years. I started smoking at the age of 10. From the age of seventeen he began to actively drink. He used mephedrone for two years. I feel my body falling apart, "- Valentin, a drug addict.

Ecstasy

Main article: Ecstasy

Psychedelia

Main article: Psychedelics

Drugs in countries around the world

Drugs in Afghanistan

• Drugs in Afghanistan

Drugs in the United States

• Drugs in the United States

Drugs in Russia

• Drugs in Russia

Drug traffic

Main article: Drug trafficking

History

2024: Surge in consumption and deaths from the drug jackpot in West Africa

In April 2024, Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency due to the spread of drugs.

Excitement is building in West Africa over a drug called jackpot (a mix of synthetic drugs with marijuana) that has been spreading to young people in Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia for the past four years. Read more here.

2023

Residents of the Netherlands spend €1 billion a year on drugs

In mid-September 2024, it became known that residents of the Netherlands spend almost €1 billion on drugs every year. This conclusion was reached by specialists from the KWR Research Institute, who drew up a map of drug consumption based on an analysis of wastewater. Read more here

Elon Musk takes ketamine, Sergey Brin takes magic mushrooms. What they are sitting on in Silicon Valley

At the end of June 2023, it became known that some American entrepreneurs and executives of companies from Silicon Valley are taking narcotic drugs to "increase concentration" and "stimulate creative thinking." Read more here.

2022

Scotland leads Europe in drug deaths

In 2022, 1,051 people died as a result of drug abuse in Scotland. In terms of mortality from prohibited substances, this country is the leader among all European states, as reported in mid-August 2023. Read more here.

Implant released that recognizes drug overdose and neutralizes it

On October 6, 2022, Rescue Biomedical announced the release of an implant that determines when a person has an opioid overdose and delivers naloxone for reverse action. The company licenses its technology through the Purdue Research Foundation's Office of Technology Commercialization. Read more here.

2018

UN: 269m people use drugs

In 2018, 269 million people in the world used drugs. Such data on June 25, 2020, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (Accounting of Charges and Payments) led to the World Drug Report - 2020.

According to the study, this number of people used cannabis, cocaine, opium and synthetic drugs. At the same time, 35.6 million of them needed the help of doctors in connection with drug addiction.

In 2018, 269 million people in the world used drugs

Opioids (heroin and opium) are recognized as the most dangerous drug, the use of which in most cases leads to death due to overdose.

According to the results of 2018, cannabis was recognized as the most common type of drugs. It was used by about 192 million people. The United States is the region with the highest prevalence of cannabis use, followed by an increase in the use of this type of drug in the UK, Italy and Germany.

According to the Accounting of Charges and Payments assessment, in Russia and Central Asia, there has been a transition from opioid consumption to stimulant drugs.

There is now evidence that methamphetamine, various cathinones, including mephedrone and alpha-PVP, are widely available on the Russian drug market. The Russian authorities reported a recent sharp increase in the identification of clandestine laboratories for the production of various drugs. The increase was 70% in three years - up to 68 laboratories in 2018, - the document is noted, excerpts from which are quoted by TASS Information Agency of Russia.

In addition, the emergence of synthetic drugs has significantly changed the drug market in Russia and Central Asia. This type of drug could take a significant market share due to the reduction in opiate consumption.

In 2018, the world managed to confiscate 5,610 tons of cannabis, 1,131 tons of cocaine, 704 tons of opium, 228 tons of methamphetamine, 139 tons of heroin and morphine, 21 tons of amphetamine, 12 tons of ecstasy.^[1]

US leads in drug deaths

Main article: Drugs in the United States

Countries with the most drug-related deaths per million people aged 15 to 64.

2016: Opioid-related death rates in countries around the world

Number of deaths from opioid use disorders per 100,000 people (2016)

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