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Cannabis, heroin, and Co - illicit drugs

Cannabis, heroin, and Co - illicit drugs

Illegal drugs are substances that act by their chemical composition on the human brain and thereby take mainly affect the mood, thinking, perception and behavior. Drug use always carries an incalculable health risk for the physical and mental health.
Illegal drugs can be categorized according to different criteria, for example, according to their chemical composition or after depletion potential currently known. Common to all illegal drugs that consuming intoxicating effect or can cause perception and altered states of consciousness. In addition, the substances have a partially high dependence potential.

The prohibition of possession, manufacture, and trafficking of illicit drugs is regulated by the Narcotics Act (BtMG), including its annexes.

According to the European Monitoring Centre every year pushing about 80 newly developed psychoactive substances (NPS) on the German market, which have not yet taken at the time of their appearance in the Annex to the Act.

This NPS is synthetic, often emanating from known narcotic substances.

They are usually prepared with the intention to mimic the effects of illicit drugs. As these new substances are not listed in the annex of the Narcotics Act, ie not coated by the international drug law, these drugs return step by step as questionable " legal highs " or " analysis chemicals " below names such as "herbal blends", "plant food" or also "bath salts" in the United state market.They entail incalculable health risks because of their unknown dose, its toxicity , its incalculable effect and their unknown long-term consequences.

Addiction prevention in Bavaria


The Bavarian Ministry of Health perceives health and preventive tasks in addiction and supports help systems, especially addiction counseling centers on site.

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