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EU drug monitoring agency voices concerns over “legal highs”

Wolfgang Gotz, the director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, urged governments not to cut funding of drug treatment programmes when he presented the agency’s annual report in Lisbon on 10 November.

As public expenditure is being drastically cut back to reduce massive national debts, Mr Gotz made a special plea for treatment schemes to reduce drug use—on which more than one million people in the European Union now depend—to be spared the budgetary axe.

“At a time when effective responses need to be sustained, austerity measures could lead to reductions in treatment services,” he warned. “Current pressures …