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Country overview: Cyprus

Key statistics on the drug situation in Cyprus

  Indicator Year (0)   Country
data
EU range  
Min. Max.
Lifetime prevalence of drug use among young adults (15 to 34 years old) cannabis GPS 2009   18 % 2.9 % 45.5 % 1
Lifetime prevalence of drug use among all adults (15 to 64 years old) cannabis 2009   11.6 % 1.5 % 32.5 % 1
Last year prevalence of drug use among young adults (15 to 34 years old) cannabis 2009   7.9 % 0.9 % 21.6 % 1
Last year prevalence of drug use among all adults (15 to 64 years old) cannabis 2009   4.4 % 0.4 % 14.3 % 1
Lifetime prevalence of drug use among young adults (15 to 34 years old) cocaine

2009

  5.3 % 0.1 % 13.6 % 1
Lifetime prevalence of drug use among all adults (15 to 64 years old) cocaine 2009   3 % 0.1 % 10.2 % 1
Last year prevalence of drug use among young adults (15 to 34 years old) cocaine 2009   2.2 % 0.1 % 4.8 % 1
Last year prevalence of drug use among all adults (15 to 64 years old) cocaine 2009   1.2 % 0 % 2.7 % 1
Recent school surveys: lifetime prevalence (15 to 16 years old) cannabis EYE 2007   5 % 4 % 45 % 2
Recent school surveys: lifetime prevalence (15 to 16 years old) cocaine 2007   3 % 1 % 5 % 2
Problem drug use rate per 1 000 population aged 15 to 64 years old PDU 2009   2.5 0.5 10.1 1
Injecting drug use rate per 1 000 population aged 15 to 64 years old 2009   0.9 0.22 15.1 1
Infectious diseases (% infected) HIV INF 2009   0–1.3 % 0 % 32.5 % 1
Infectious diseases (cases per million) HIV infections newly diagnosed in injecting drug users 2009   0 0 63.4 5
Infectious diseases (% infected) HCV 2009   46.6 % 22.4 % 90.7 % 1
Infectious diseases (% infected) HBV HBsAg 2009   0.9 % 0.5 % 3.9 % 1
Drug-related deaths DRD 2009   12 6 2 481 3
Drug law offences (as number of reports of offences) DLO 2009   772 772 397 620 2
Drug law offences for use/possession 2009   560 285 372 230 1
Cannabis drug law offences i 2009 a 78.3 % 24.4 % 91.5 % 4
Number of new clients entering treatment TDI 2009   319 21 45 048 3
Number of new clients entering treatment with known primary drug 2009   319 0 43 683 3
New clients entering treatment (% opioids of clients with known primary drug) 2009   38.9 % 3.1 % 92.8 % 3
New clients entering treatment (% cocaine of clients with known primary drug) 2009   16.9 % 0 % 56 % 3
New clients entering treatment (% cannabis of clients with known primary drug) 2009   40.1 % 1.9 % 80.2 % 3
Number of all clients entering treatment 2009   670 350 139 390 3
Number of all clients entering treatment with known primary drug 2009   665 350 133 960 3
All clients entering treatment (% opioids of clients with known primary drug) 2009   57.4 % 10.4 % 97.1 % 3
All clients entering treatment (% cocaine of clients with known primary drug) 2009   14.4 % 0.1 % 46.4 % 3
All clients entering treatment (% cannabis of clients with known primary drug) 2009   25.1 % 0.6 % 69.8 % 3
Syringes provided through needle and syringe programmes HSR 2009   40 0 4 861 195 1
Number of all clients in substitution treatment 2009   286 189 137 541 2
Price in euros per gram cannabis herb ii PPP 2009 b EUR 10–60 EUR 2 EUR 70 5
Price in euros per gram cannabis resin ii 2009 b EUR 12–60 EUR 3 EUR 19 5
Price in euros per gram cocaine ii 2009 b EUR 90–120 EUR 45 EUR 104 5
Price in euros per gram heroin (brown) ii;iv 2009 b EUR 50–80 EUR 23 EUR 135 5
Price in euros 1 tablet XTC ii 2009 b EUR 5–25 EUR 3 EUR 15.90 5
Price in euros per gram amphetamine ii 2009 b EUR 5–20 EUR 8 EUR 41.80 5
Purity (%) cocaine iii       18 % 51.3 % 5
Purity (%) heroin (brown) iii       12.9 % 37 % 5
Potency (%) cannabis resin iii;v       2.9 % 17.3 % 5
Potency (%) cannabis herb iii       1.3 % 12.4 % 5

Notes

i As percentage of all drug law offences reported.

ii When available, country provides minimum, maximum, mean, median and modal (most frequent) price in euros recorded. This table shows the mean price in euros.

iii When available, country provides minimum, maximum, mean, median and modal (most frequent) purity/potency (percentage). This table shows the mean purity/potency (percentage).

iv The minimum value in the European range refers to the mean price.

v The maximum value in the European range refers to the mean potency.

0 Most recent available data shown. Any data prior to 2005 not shown.

1 2005 to 2009 data.

2 2007 to 2009 data.

3 2008 to 2009 data.

4 2006 to 2009 data.

5 2009 data.

a Based on number of offences with cannabis as main drug. Among all offences broken down by drug (for some offences, a breakdown by drug is not available).

b Values are minimum price recorded and maximum price recorded and not the mean.

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