The government's special commissioner for drug dependency said on Thursday that doctors need to start assessing teenagers for addiction to the internet.
The Criminal Investigation Department (BKD) released figures on Tuesday showing that cases of drug-related crimes have risen to the highest number in a decade.
Usage of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine, also known as “crystal meth”, has gone up in Germany and it is being rapidly imported into the country, the <i>Bild</i> newspaper reported on Saturday.
The German woman who trapped her one-night stand in her Munich apartment, repeatedly demanding sex, is not a sex goddess, but probably suffering from an addiction, a psychiatrist said Saturday.
Several Bremen parents undergoing methadone replacement treatment for drug addiction are suspected of giving their small children hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin and sedatives, the city’s health and social welfare department said Friday.
The Bundestag, or the lower house of parliament, passed a law on Thursday allowing the controversial treatment of the country’s worst addicts with synthetic heroin.
