Drug use -key terms
drugs obtained illegally and the use of legal drugs used for non medicinal purposes.
What are Illict drugs?
83.4 million European citizens
How many EU citizens have taken illicit drugs during their lifetime?
drugs being allowed, regulated and sold legally and in public
What is drug legislation?
Body that set the European Drugs strategy
What is the European Union?
Agencies responsive for policing drug importation/smuggling
What are national border security agencies?
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?
18.3 deaths per million among those aged 15 to 64
What are drug mortality rates?
The removing of criminal penalties for using certain drugs
What is drug decriminalization?
Groups of citizens that debate/discuss issues and give reccomendations tp governments
What are citizens assemblies ?
European Body that supports Member States in preventing and combating all forms of international organised crime such as international drug trafficking
What is EuroPol?
Drugs associated with high health, addiction and public order risks
What are hard drugs?
The illegal importation of drugs
What is drug smuggling?
organization that set the three main drug treaties
What is the UN?
Actors that set drug national laws/policy
What are Member states/national governments
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?
two drugs being used simultaneously
What is Polydrug?
People travelling to a country with the intent to take drugs
What is drug tourism?
examples of drug harm reduction measures
What are needle swapping programs, drug taking tents/rooms, drug testing etc
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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?
Directive under which the EU tries to confiscate and recover proceeds from deprive criminals
What is the asset recovery directive?
The occurrence of a substance use disorder and another mental health disorder in the same individual.
What is Comorbidity?
multiple generations of a family suffering with a substance use disorder
What is intergenerational drug use?
a common anti-opioid medicine used to prevent overdose
What is naloxone ?
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?
The most smuggled drug into the EU in 2021
What is Cocaine?