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A UN global survey has found that Europe is the global centre of illicit amphetamine manufacturing and trafficking and it continues to be a key player in ecstasy production.

According to the Commission, nearly one in five of the European Union population has used an illicit drug at least once. Fears over drugs and organised crime tops the "list of fears" among European citizens, with 69 per cent seeing it as the greatest threat to our society. Fighting the drugs phenomenon requires a multidisciplinary and integrated approach in the EU.

Levels of drug consumption across the new EU-25 are leveling out, due to a large increase in the use of recreational drugs in the newest Member States.

The British government warned the German pharmaceutical company, Bayer, in June 2001 that it needed to change the health warning labels for its anticholesterol drug Lipobay. This shows that the risks associated with the drug were well known months before Bayer withdrew Lipobay.