{"id":909,"date":"2008-11-27T12:33:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T12:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=909"},"modified":"2016-09-21T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:48:53","slug":"illegal-drug-use-in-the-uk-and-ireland-among-the-highest-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2008\/11\/illegal-drug-use-in-the-uk-and-ireland-among-the-highest-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Drug Use In the UK and Ireland Among the Highest In the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the just released 46-nation Council of Europe annual report, both countries have a higher proportion of cocaine users than anywhere except Spain and Ireland tops the League\u2019s Table for ecstasy. About 185 million people worldwide \u2013 3% of the global population \u2013 use illegal drugs. Nearly 80% use cannabis, 20% use ecstasy and amphetamines, 7% use cocaine and 3% use heroin. The situation is now so bad that Europe is the most profitable market in the world for production and trafficking of drugs\u2026<br \/>\nSource: The Scotsman, January 25, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the just released 46-nation Council of Europe annual report, both countries have a higher proportion of cocaine users than anywhere except Spain and Ireland tops the League\u2019s Table for ecstasy. About 185 million people worldwide \u2013 3% of the global population \u2013 use illegal drugs. Nearly 80% use cannabis, 20% use ecstasy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-cocaine","category-ecstasy","category-heroin-methadone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}