EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) released the European Drug Report for 2016. The report investigates recent trends and development in drugs’ market and consume.

The highlighted topics are:

• health risks of high-potency products;
• emergence of new substances;
• changing patterns of drug use;
• overdose deaths in some countries
• threats posed by internet drug markets.

It expresses the need for Europe to embrace a broader and more complicated set of policy issues