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Christian Mirre

PhD. in Sciences, holds a Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences from the University of Marseille-Luminy and has been a long term biologist at the French CNRS's Section of Life Sciences. Currently, representative of the Foundation for a Drug Free Europe.

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Xylazine, a one-way trip to Dante’s Inferno

Xylazine is called a "zombie drug" because the users have this particular, confused, hunched and slowed move which gives them the appearance of the living dead.

11 October 2023 · 7 min read

What About the Deadly Opioid Fentanyl?
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Health

What About the Deadly Opioid Fentanyl?

Within the European Union in a drug market in full swing helped by the use of social media or internet marketing and applications, appears an additional drug situation, with the…

16 September 2023 · 11 min read

Health

Life and Drugs (part 2), The Cannabis

Cannabis is the most consumed substance in Europe by 15.1% of the population aged 15-34 with 2.1 % being daily cannabis users (EMCDDA European Drug Report June 2023). And 97…

14 July 2023 · 16 min read

Life and Drugs, Part 1, An Overview
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Europe

Life and Drugs, Part 1, An Overview

Drugs //  "It is better and more useful to meet a problem in time than to seek a remedy after the damage is done" explains a Latin saying of the mid-13th…

7 June 2023 · 12 min read

Some Dope* on Drugs… and European Youth
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Some Dope* on Drugs… and European Youth

Over the last two decades the demand and supply for illicit drugs have dramatically increased as evidenced by the huge quantities seized in 2020 according to the European Drug Report:…

3 November 2022 · 13 min read

European Population and its Drug Problem, a 2022 overview
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Education

European Population and its Drug Problem, a 2022 overview

Being present across European countries and in direct contact in the streets, markets, any kind of shops, associations, schools, administrations, and agencies, with the youth, parents and the populations at…

5 August 2022 · 10 min read

News

26 June celebration across Europe: Putting an end to Drugs

The United Nations General Assembly by the Resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987 decided to celebrate the 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, “as an expression…

22 July 2022 · 7 min read

Coke (cocaine): the high and… the harder the fall 
cocaine death symbol Photo by Colin Davis

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Coke (cocaine): the high and… the harder the fall 

Coke: the high and... the harder the fall The beginning Cocaine named from the Quechua "kúka" is a natural alkaloid synthezised by the coca plant (family of Erythroxylaceae) as a…

23 June 2022 · 8 min read

Education and Prevention – A Protection Against Drug Use
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Europe

Education and Prevention – A Protection Against Drug Use

Education and Prevention - A Protection Against Drug Use Drug Use: The Director of the European Monitoring Center on Drug and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) in the presentation of the 2021…

20 May 2022 · 5 min read