Drug use -key terms
Problems
Response measures
Stakeholders
Security
100

drugs obtained illegally and the use of legal drugs  used for non medicinal purposes.  

What are Illict drugs?

100

 83.4 million European citizens

How many EU citizens have taken illicit drugs during their lifetime?

100

drugs being allowed, regulated and sold legally and in public


What is drug legislation?

100

Body that set the European Drugs strategy 

What is the European Union?

100

Agencies responsive for policing drug importation/smuggling

What are national border security agencies?

200

A chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences

what is a drug addiction/ Substance use disorder?

200

 18.3 deaths per million among those aged 15 to 64

What are drug mortality rates?

200

The removing of criminal penalties for using certain drugs

What is drug decriminalization?

200

Groups of citizens that debate/discuss issues and give reccomendations tp governments

What are citizens assemblies ?

200

European Body that supports Member States in preventing and combating all forms of international organised crime such as international drug trafficking

What is EuroPol?

300

 Drugs associated with high health, addiction and public order risks

What are hard drugs?

300

The illegal importation of drugs

What is drug smuggling?

300

organization that set the three main drug treaties

What is the UN?

300

Actors that set drug national laws/policy


What are Member states/national governments

300

Alliance/reform which will reform practices in major EU ports and increase the frequency of checks on imported materials

What is the European Ports alliance?

400

two drugs being used simultaneously

What is Polydrug?

400

People travelling to a country with the intent to take drugs

What is drug tourism?

400

examples of drug harm reduction measures

What are needle swapping programs, drug taking tents/rooms, drug testing etc



400

T

he European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation cooperates with both Member States and third party judicial authorities in investigating and prosecuting serious organised cross-border crime such as drug trafficking.

What is EuroJust?

400

Directive under which the EU tries to confiscate and recover proceeds from deprive criminals

What is the asset recovery directive?


500

The occurrence of a substance use disorder and another mental health disorder in the same individual.

What is Comorbidity?

500

multiple generations of a family suffering with a substance use disorder

What is intergenerational drug use?

500

a common anti-opioid medicine used to prevent overdose

What is naloxone ?

500

Body of the Council of the EU that recommends and co-ordinates drug policy such as drugs research, prevention, harm reduction, treatment and law enforcement through a human rights focus across the continent.

Hint: Not an EU Institution 

What is The Pompidou Group?

500

The most smuggled drug into the EU in 2021


What is Cocaine?

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