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Leticia Batista Cabanas

€31bn drug trade, 7,600 deaths: How the EU plans to tackle the drug crisis

The plan, unanimously adopted, aims to systematically dismantle drug-related organised crime. To do this, it asks major EU ports to form alliances and coordinate more closely in tackling organised crime. It will also target trafficking finances and introduce blanket bans on certain chemicals used to produce synthetic drugs.

At the health level, it proposes city-level monitoring, take-home overdose reversal medicines, and increased funding for treatment services aimed at marginalised groups most at risk of drug-related harm.

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