{"id":428955,"date":"2025-06-05T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/05\/carceri-ue-droga-qui-gira-di-tutto\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:13:07","slug":"eu-prisons-the-real-market-for-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/05\/eu-prisons-the-real-market-for-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The real market for drugs are the EU prisons, where everything is available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Prisons and drugs, an increasingly strong combination that is difficult to break<\/strong>.\u00a0There is a lot of data and aspects contained in the\u00a0latest annual report on drugs\u00a0<\/a>by the\u00a0 European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EUDA), and one of them concerns the spread of drugs in European prisons.<\/span>\u00a0Everything goes in there, more and more easily and in greater and greater quantities<\/strong>. As a\u00a0result, “Responding to the drug problem in European prisons remains a challenge<\/strong>“, denounces the study.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The testimonies collected and the research conducted show that people in prison in the EU report one-off drug use, i.e. mostly occasional, prior to imprisonment and “higher levels of consumption, particularly of heroin, cocaine and amphetamines” once behind bars. A reality that draws attention to the problematic nature of detention systems, and “the need to expand some responses” by the national authorities directly responsible. The link between prison and drugs could be due\u00a0to\u00a0the<\/a><\/span>\u00a0increase in the prison population of the European Union<\/a>, which consequently increases the number of potential customers and the turnover.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Few controls, growing corruption: this is how the illegal business thrives. “Drugs are brought into prisons in a variety of ways, including\u00a0internal concealment by prisoners, visitors, and, in some cases, staff<\/strong>, as well as trafficking via drones,” reports EUDA.<\/span><\/span> In this over-tolerated market, “potent substances, such as synthetic cannabinoids, opioids, and various drugs, may be favoured, as they are easier to conceal.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is also the issue of health. There is not only the risk of overdose, as denounced by the European agency in the report, because “where drugs are injected, in the context of limited access to sterile injection equipment, the risks of transmission of blood-borne viruses, including HIV and HCV, increase<\/strong>“. As\u00a0the report further denounces, this is because “very few Member States report the provision of needle and syringe distribution programmes, or naloxone programmes to prevent overdose deaths” within correctional facilities. Another aspect that confirms the unsustainable conditions in European prisons.<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual report of the European Monitoring Centre speaks clearly: “Responding to the presence of drugs remains a challenge.” Between poor controls and corruption, a new wake-up call on the prison system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":428944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[28259,27047,27918,31412,26640,29891,29892,28913],"class_list":["post-428955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-drugs","tag-eu-en","tag-euda-en","tag-european-observatory-of-drugs-and-drug-addiction-en","tag-health","tag-situation-carcerati-en","tag-prisons","tag-health-public-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428981,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428955\/revisions\/428981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}