Europe News Drug report warning over powerful opioids The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drugs Addiction report warns of criminal gang links 06/06/2017
Unreported Europe Speeding ahead - EU plays catch-up as new drugs flood into Europe Europe is struggling to cope with the two latest drug waves to claim victims and make fortunes for the unscrupulous; Crystal meth and legal highs 29/04/2016
Unreported Europe Rising Crystal meth industry winning drugs war Petrovice is in the Czech Republic. The small town is close to the German border. Patrick, whose name we changed for security reasons is an 29/04/2016
Unreported Europe Expert says Europe needs better teamwork to fight drugs war Sophie Claudet, euronews: “So, the UK is planning to enforce a ban on legal highs sometime in May, but we’ve seen in the Republic of Ireland the ban 29/04/2016
Unreported Europe Legal and lethal: the rise in deaths from new-wave drugs Cheap but deadly “Words could never define what that feels like. To bury your child at seventeen for something that is so cheap but deadly.” “Heroin 28/04/2016
Europe News Europeans spend over 24 billion euros a year on illegal drugs, new study finds Europeans spend more than 24 billion euros a year on illicit drugs, according to a new report published on Tuesday. The joint EU-Europol study found 05/04/2016
Europe News Captagon: the so-called 'super' stimulant 'used in Syria' Captagon: the stimulant that is said to be fuelling fighters in Syria. Or is it? Media reports have described it as a super drug that can mask pain 26/11/2015
My Europe Series N-bomb, China White, Spice - the new wave in deadly designer drugs The explosion in new drugs often known as legal highs has become a major headache for governments across Europe. New psychoactive substances 04/06/2015
My Europe Series Really? These drugs are legal? It is a headache for politicians right across Europe: how to keep up with the rise in the use of legal highs or psychoactive substances. And how do 02/09/2013
My Europe Series The highs and lows of new drugs The European Commission has announced proposals for new regulations to tackle the controversial issue of so-called legal highs, psychoactive 02/09/2013
My Europe Series High time for drug reform? With an estimated global profit of 230 billion euros from illegal drugs made by organised crime groups each year, the war on narcotics remains as 10/04/2013
My Europe Series Bonus: Who's keeping track of new drugs in the EU? Euronews’ Seamus Kearney talks to Roumen Sedefov from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction about the rise in the prevalence of 09/07/2012
My Europe Series Club drug clinic a first in London Britons having problems linked to the use of new psychoactive substances now have a specialised clinic they can turn to. The Club Drug Clinic, which 09/07/2012
My Europe Series Imitations of illicit drugs They are known by different names in different countries: psychoactive substances, legal highs, herbal highs, stimulants or ethno-botanicals. They 09/07/2012