Lockdown effect on drugs, reports to the authorities drop but not consumption

A MAP on the use of drugs in Italy to know and fight them. The White Paper on drugs, in its twelfth edition, is an independent report on the effects of the Consolidated Law on drugs. A report that this year photographs the effects of the epidemic on this addiction.

The lockdown effect slowed the increase in reports for the use of illicit substances: 31,016 in 2020, almost 3000 minors. Sanctions also decrease: there were 8,587