The EU’s drug strategy is the Council’s ambitious response to growing concerns about European drug use and trafficking. The European Union Drugs Agency’s 9 of June report revealed at least 7.600 annual overdose deaths. Synthetic drug trafficking increased by over 1.000 percent in a decade. Organised crime networks are adapting to increased law enforcement by shifting cocaine shipments to secondary regional ports.
This all means that over 29 million European adults are actively consuming illicit substances, driving more than 1 million law enforcement seizures annually
