Events react to cocaine use in Norway: – We should crack down on the Exit tradition

4.2 per cent of Norwegians between the ages of 15 and 34 report having used cocaine throughout a interval of 1 yr. This is identical proportion as in Denmark, and a barely smaller proportion than in Eire and the Netherlands.

The figures are primarily based on the final one the report to the EU drug company EMCDDA.

Lisa Marie Ness Klungland is well being coverage spokesperson within the Heart Social gathering. She is considered one of a number of politicians who react to the figures.

– Norway should not be at any drug summit. Too many younger individuals consider that medication go unpunished. It’s not. Now we should crack down on the Exit tradition, and the police have to be given extra instruments. That is severe for our youth, says Klungland to NTB.

– Terrifying

FRP’s well being coverage spokesperson, Bård Hoksrud, additionally believes it’s frighteningly excessive. He factors out that drug use amongst younger individuals has exploded in recent times, and that new pointers for the police on uncovering drug use have led to a pointy decline within the police’s reactions to younger drug customers.

– These affected by this are the younger, the place medication are normalized in lots of environments. Now we should give the police once more the instruments to detect drug use amongst younger individuals, and provides them assist to cease, says Hoksrud.

Kjell Ingolf Ropstad within the Christian Individuals’s Social gathering (KrF) believes that the excessive use of cocaine exhibits the necessity for a transparent and distinct drug coverage, which says no to medication.

– KrF says a transparent no to elevated entry to medication, as a result of we don’t wish to contribute to decreasing the brink for younger individuals into drug abuse, says KrF spokesperson for justice coverage, Kjell Ingolf Ropstad.

27 member states

The survey examines tendencies in drug use inside the EU’s 27 member states, in addition to Norway and Turkey. It’s primarily based on the newest accessible figures from every nation.

Nevertheless, a doable supply of error is that the surveys within the particular person international locations had been carried out at totally different occasions. The figures from Greece are from 2015, whereas the figures from Norway are from 2021.