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Country overview: Spain

Key statistics on the drug situation in Spain

Drug/Indicator Key statistic Year Data EU range
Min. Max.
Opioids Problem opioid use (rate/1 000) 2009 1.2 0.3 7.2
All clients entering treatment (%) 2009 34.3 9 95
New clients entering treatment (%) 2009 15 3 96
Purity — heroin brown (%) 2010 31.5 2 57
Price per gram — heroin brown (EUR) 2010 61 23 160
Cocaine Prevalence of drug use — schools (%) : : 1 5
Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%) 2009 4.4 0 4
Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%) 2009 2.7 0 3
All clients entering treatment (%) 2009 44 0 44
New clients entering treatment (%) 2009 50.6 0 51
Purity (%) 2010 45.5 22 55
Price per gram (EUR) 2010 60 45 144
Amphetamines Prevalence of drug use — schools (%) : : 1 7
Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%) 2009 1.4 0 3
Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%) 2009 0.6 0 1
All clients entering treatment (%) 2009 0.9 0 63
New clients entering treatment (%) 2009 1.2 0 68
Purity (%) : : 5 39
Price per gram (EUR) 2010 26 6 41
Ecstasy Prevalence of drug use — schools (%) : : 1 4
Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%) 2009 1.8 0 3
Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%) 2009 0.8 0 2
All clients entering treatment (%) 2009 0.2 0 1
New clients entering treatment (%) 2009 0.3 0 1
Purity (mg of MDMA base per unit) : : 3 104
Price per tablet (EUR) 2010 10 2 17
Cannabis Prevalence of drug use — schools (%) : : 5 42
Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%) 2009 19.4 1 21
Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%) 2009 10.6 0 14
All clients entering treatment (%) 2009 18.1 1 71
New clients entering treatment (%) 2009 29.6 1 80
Potency — herbal (%) : : 1 12
Potency — resin (%) : : 1 14
Price per gram — herbal (EUR) 2010 4 3 25
Price per gram — resin (EUR) 2010 5 3 17
Prevalence of problem drug use Problem drug use (rate/1 000) : : 1.5 12.3
Injecting drug use (rate/1 000) : : 0.2 5
Drug-related infectious diseases/deaths HIV infections newly diagnosed (rate/million) 2010 5.2 0 46.3
HIV prevalence (%) 2009 32.3 0 32
HCV prevalence (%) : : 14 70
Drug-related deaths (rate/million) 2009 14.1 2.3 111.2
Health and social responses Syringes distributed 2010 3 264 000 0 13 800 000
Clients in substitution treatment 2009 78 311 237 172 716
Treatment demand All clients 2009 52 549 230 127 889
New clients 2009 24 605 176 44 924
All clients with known primary drug 2009 52 549 230 123 119
New clients with known primary drug 2009 24 605 176 42 991
Drug law offences Number of reports of offences 2010 360 730 445 360 730
Offences for use/possession 2010 336 308 76 336 308

Notes

See the explanatory notes for further information on the methods and definitions.

The most recent reported data was used for each key statistic. Data before 2005 were excluded.

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