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Synthetic drugs surging in Europe

By AFP
April 20, 2021

THE HAGUE: Europe is fighting a stark rise in the production of synthetic drugs as part of an overall illegal trade that nets at least 30 billion euros ($36 billion) a year, the EU’s judicial agency said on Monday. At least a third of trafficking cases referred to Eurojust over the last five years involved man-made substances such as methamphetamine and other newer drugs, the agency said in a new report.