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The U.N. drug control agency on Wednesday sounded the alarm on the spread of designer drugs, which are sold openly and produce legal but sometimes deadly highs, while reporting that global drug use generally remains stable.
Such substances "can be far more dangerous than traditional drugs," the agency said in a statement accompanying its annual report. "Street names, such as 'spice,' 'meow-meow' and 'bath salts' mislead young people into believing that they are indulging in low-risk fun."
A six-page summary of the report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warned that "the international drug control system is foundering, for the first time, under the speed and creativity" of their proliferation.
It said countries worldwide reported 251 such substances by mid-2012, compared with 166 at the end of 2009. The problem, said the report, is "hydra-headed" in that as fast as governments ban the drugs, manufacturers produce new variants.
Nearly 5 percent of European Union residents aged between 15 and 24 have already experimented with such drugs, said the report.
In the United States, 158 kinds of synthetic drugs were circulating during 2012, more than twice as many as in the EU, and use was growing in East and Southeast Asia, including China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.....snip~
UN sounds alarm on widespread designer drug use
It would appear that due to time and new drugs out there. The drug market is changing. More and more are producing legal drugs. Which Could be even more harmful to ones health. With the link comes a report on Heroin use and Cocaine use In Europe and the US.
So while we continue the war on drugs that are of the traditional sense. The Market is changing over. It would appear the UN will lead that War on The Synthetics. Thoughts?
Such substances "can be far more dangerous than traditional drugs," the agency said in a statement accompanying its annual report. "Street names, such as 'spice,' 'meow-meow' and 'bath salts' mislead young people into believing that they are indulging in low-risk fun."
A six-page summary of the report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warned that "the international drug control system is foundering, for the first time, under the speed and creativity" of their proliferation.
It said countries worldwide reported 251 such substances by mid-2012, compared with 166 at the end of 2009. The problem, said the report, is "hydra-headed" in that as fast as governments ban the drugs, manufacturers produce new variants.
Nearly 5 percent of European Union residents aged between 15 and 24 have already experimented with such drugs, said the report.
In the United States, 158 kinds of synthetic drugs were circulating during 2012, more than twice as many as in the EU, and use was growing in East and Southeast Asia, including China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.....snip~
UN sounds alarm on widespread designer drug use
It would appear that due to time and new drugs out there. The drug market is changing. More and more are producing legal drugs. Which Could be even more harmful to ones health. With the link comes a report on Heroin use and Cocaine use In Europe and the US.
So while we continue the war on drugs that are of the traditional sense. The Market is changing over. It would appear the UN will lead that War on The Synthetics. Thoughts?
