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"Since it was set up in 1993, the main tasks of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction have been the collection, analysis and distribution of transnational data on drug problems.
Thirteen years later, the results are not impressive. Although a certain improvement in our knowledge of the drug phenomenon in all its many aspects here in the European Union is to be observed, no positive effect on drug use is to be seen. Quite the contrary, in fact.
One thing is to be noted. Today, it is no longer just the traditional drugs that are being taken. Instead, we are, to our consternation, witnessing the emergence of new markets for synthetic drugs and a situation in which drugs are produced more easily and more cheaply. They generate more profit for the traffickers and also do more harm to the health of those who take them.
In reality, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction is no more than a simple data base, devoid of any operational value. In fact, all the figures made available serve only to disguise the failure of the various national policies for combating drug misuse. It is high time that the Member States took their responsibilities seriously and stopped hiding behind bodies that are neither designed nor commissioned to act on their behalf."@en1
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