This may be a pure coincidence, but the fact is that the West German city of Essen is located on the addiction center, population 600,000, Hoffingstrasta (“Hope Street”), so be a sign.
There is hope for people struggling with drug addiction, who get free food and space for sleeping somewhere. Hope Street is the place where they can consume sterile drug under supervision, smoke, smoke, or inject heroin in the room.
The scene is changing, “The loss in loss in Essen was said to the team by Casper Stolls.” Even those who have been in consumption of intravenous heroin for 15 years are now smoking. “People deteriorate Russar because they can avoid spirals to buy something ’15 -minute kick, receiving, money, cracks.”
Since the drug consumption chamber was opened in 2001, there was not a single death, which had a pride report with sitinfections. But the latest, even more dangerous drugs are already at the door.
Search in large German cities as frankfurt or Berlin synthetic opioids such as fantanels or knots, mixed with heroin, live on the streets for a long time. Even a small amount, the size of a rash of salt, can kill.
Latest Trend: Taking Drugs Live on Ticketkok
Ruben Plainrt, a spokesman for Essen Ediction Care, has seen a worrying new trend that began during the Kovid -19 epidemic: Benzodiazepine and Opioid -reducing concern The increasing number of young people who consumes anxiety live on social platforms, such as the dealers wait in the comments.
Planert told DW: “Recently there was a young man in our youth facility who spent 5 days in a coma after smoking. An overdosis with respiratory paralysis, an overdosis, which is possible with pure heroin, but not too much.”
What makes Phantenile even more dangerous: “The people consuming it often have no idea, because the heroin is kept with Phentineil; just so much that it does not lead to the overdose. Only experts and chemists can do so very accurately, not any old street dealer.”
Essen, Hanover, Berlin: Model City for Prevention
Essen with Hanover and Berlin, is one of the three models cities, preparing more and more in Phentineile. The project is called “synthetic opioids – prepared and reacted,” or is called “so -ard”, and is ready to serve as a blueprint for the whole country.
Emergency plans are being prepared, emergency services and hospital staff are being trained, and, at the top, the drug tests for bee are being expanded for more accurate detection of opioids.
Rebecca Lehman of the Lat Service Department of Essen city told DW: “The target of this 24 -month project is to overtake the situation for our American America […] So to prevent our health system from being overwell. This makes sense to develop for the initial warning system. ,
Support from federal government
Its purpose is to avoid cases in the English city of Birmingham two years ago, where 30 people were killed by overdosing on synthetic opioids. Or, in the Irish capital Dublin in 2023, when dozens of drugs were caused by emergency in the NITAAN.
Issues of addiction and drugs of the new Commissioner of the German government, Hendric Streak has a synthetic opioid issue on its radar and supports the “SO-Burbar” project.
“We should not repeat the failures of the past and react very late. That is why I advocate a nationwide monitoring and initial warning system that alerted policy, emergency services, drug care and drug consumers in real time, when new dangers appear,” in a statement.
“This is about making people sensitive to drug hazards, promoting drug addiction options and ensuring that emergency drug naloxone [used to reverse or reduce the effects of opioids] It is needed everywhere. ,
The number of drug death decreases, but there is no reason for decency
Drug addiction researcher and health scientist Daniel Demail had a view for the project, aimed at preventing Germany from further increase in the use of synthetic opioids. The number of drug related deaths in Germany declined shortly in 2024 in 2024.
However, there is no one to give all-cleaer, Demail said. “We have an estimated 170,000 people in Germany who are addicted to opioids. It is usually heroin; the number has been uniquely stable for many years,” he told DW.
About 10 years ago, in the open drug scene, people switched cocaine to processing cocaine in the crack from the black market. “They consume heroin, as well as other medicines. We call this polyvillant consumption, which means that many substances are being consumed.”
“There is no glory in prevention,” Demail quoted virologists Christian Drostain, whose words were repeated through the onset of the Kovid -19 epidemic. This means that the best-case landscape is that the project helps prevent the worst situation, without the public appreciation.
Drug addiction advocates better infrastructure and especially a complete-Germany strategy, which is a complete-Germany strategy to deal with the advance of Phantenal.
“When I talk with local politicians or officials, they are already worried. But unfortunately, we do not have any broad and nationwide drug checking, which will give us a better database. That is why the municipalities are advised very well, now we are a little further calm than the wave.”
This article has been translated from German.
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