European Union health ministers on Wednesday tackled the issue of designer drugs, as the bloc’s current leader Poland urged its 26 fellow member nations to step up the fight.
“The biggest problem is the distribution of designer drugs via the Internet,” Poland’s Health Minister Ewa Kopacz told reporters after talks with her counterparts in the Baltic Sea resort of Sopot.
“We need to take European-level action to fight against that form of supply,” she added.
Poland, whose six-month term at helm of the EU started last Friday, has cracked down at home on such laboratory-created drugs, which imitate the effect of banned narcotics but whose individual chemical components are not necessarily illegal.
“There’s no sense in banning such substances in a single EU member state. We need to work towards uniform legislation across the EU,” said Adam Fronczak, Poland’s deputy health minister. continue reading…
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