With the economic crisis in 2009 have reduced the consumption of traditional drugs (primarily heroin and cocaine), but nnn spice stop the spread of drugs and stimulants often sold in a disco on weekends. The average age of first use has decreased between 12 and 13 years (but it also reduces the baby-pushers) preteen age in some ways,
The research data on the phenomenon of the spread of smart drugs, presented at the 66th Congress of the Italian Society of Pediatrics, "I'm not perceived as drugs by children, to underestimate the effects, "said the captain of the nucleus of investigative police in Rome Louis Mancuso.
The good news is that in 2009 decreased the consumption of individual drugs among young people, but with the exception of stimulants, and increased the multi-drug abusers of drugs, often with alcohol, which have increased 18.2% between 2007 and 2010 and has lowered the average age of occasional consumers that there are already between 12 and 13 years.
channels of supply of these substances, which occur often in the form of incense-scented room and sold as "spice" but have the same effects as cannabis, can be found on the Internet, smart shops, pharmacies and online social networks.
Pediatricians denounce the increase of +18.2% in three years the phenomenon of reusable drug, often with alcohol.
Another figure to be reckoned with is the increase in baby-pusher with less than 14 years, not attributable to drug dealers. According to data of the Carabinieri in 2009 there were two teenagers for drug offenses and 823 arrests 1,163 children reported to the court, among these, 80% are Italian, 41% live in the North, 22% in Central Italy and 37% in the South and Islands.
54% of children arrested for drug dealing has 17 years 16 years 28%, 14% are 15 and 4% have 14 years.
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