Traduction de «Droghe maggiori » (Italien → Anglais) :

"This year's report brings good news in that the use of cannabis and heroin may have stabilised in Europe and that the EU is better equipped to tackle illegal drug problems than a decade ago as a result of EU and national drug strategies coupled with more investment in drug prevention and treatment.

Today, it is no longer just the traditional drugs that are being taken. Instead, we are, to our consternation, witnessing the emergence of new markets for synthetic drugs and a situation in which drugs are produced more easily and more cheaply. They generate more profit for the traffickers and also do more harm to the health of those who take them.

The priorities of a harm-reduction strategy must be based on a scientific assessment of what drugs are likely to cause the greatest harm.

N. whereas action must be taken to combat the marked increase now visible in some EU Member States in the consumption of alcoholic beverages by young people; whereas this, combined with the use of drugs (especially synthetic drugs), is leading to increased juvenile delinquency, more traffic accidents, more failures at school, greater family tensions, etc.,

4. Calls on the Member States and the Union to show greater political resolve and, if the need for more effective measures to combat drug abuse and drug trafficking cannot be met with existing resources, to commit higher resources on the one hand for internal action, notably in the educational, social, health and medical scientific field, particularly as regards the effects of drugs on health and life expectancy, and, on the other, for international action; condemns, in the light of Article 6(4) of the EU Treaty which requires the Union to “provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies”, ...[+++] the persistent lack of comparable data provided by the Member States on drugs and drug addiction and calls on them to remedy this situation forthwith;

Giving drivers the correct information on the safety provided by their vehicles, developing computer tools to manage traffic better and reducing the risk of accidents due to the consumption of alcohol, drugs or medicines are just some of the measures recommended by the European Commission to address what is one of the main causes of death in the European Union: road accidents.