Lisbon with increased consumption of cannabis during the Covid-19 pandemic – Observer
Lisbon is one of the cities in Europe with the highest traces in wastewater in 2021, a study that indicates that the consumption of seconds of wastewater in 2021 “looks like it was destroyed” during the Covid-19 process.
Data on samples collected in wastewater from the study “Analysis of wastewater and drugs carried out in 75 cities out of 2, being in Portugal the data collected in 5 countries in Lisbon, Almada and Porto — referring to 2021 and Thursday published by the European group SCORE, in collaboration with the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
According to an expert from the EM, of consumption in Lisbon, the consumption data on the many other lines, with an increase in the consumption of other waters, with an increase in the consumption of many waters, with an increase in the consumption of other cities, which can be used online, with an increase in consumption from other cities, seeded and methamphetamines and one from MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy).
On the other hand, in Porto only consumption, in counter-cycle with European cities, with a decrease in other substances.
In Almada, a “significant increase” in the use of cocaine, amphetamines and ecstasy and a decrease in the remaining.
The study denotes “an increase in threats in most configurations” (cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamines, amphetamines and MDMA) in 2021 during lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
With regard to cannabis, the highest loads of the metabolite (THC-COOH) were all in southern and western European cities, in particular Portugal, Spain, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Slovenia.
“In 2021, almost half of the cities where I am studying cannabis metabolites (13 out of 31) reported an increase in loads” of this drug, an EMCDDA source told Lusa.
This is the highest number in Europe, an end of developing US drug use patterns that “this is the most European number of participants to date, despite the persistent disruption caused by the Covid-19 study period in question” .
From Barcelona (Spain) Limassol (Cyprus) and from Oslo (Norway) to Porto (Portugal), the wastewater transition zones in the wastewater treatment plants in the rainy zones during periods of one week, between March and rainy seasons in May of 2021.
According to the EMCDDA Lusa, “the 2021 results point to an overall increase in agencies of four of the five drugs to elements with elements” (cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamines and MDMA), with decreases recorded in most cities. investigated.
The main ones (the main ones of this study, carried out between March and May of study in 221, in the middle of the period in 219 derived from the Covid-19 pandemic, point out that merchandise goods in wastewater continued to be the truest in Europe and the most true in European cities, especially Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain), but traces were also found in most cities in Eastern Europe, where increases are observed.
“Globally, in 2021, more than half of the cities of record compared to the 2020 data (32 out of 58 cities with recent data related to increase)”, refers to the EMCDDA, noting that the EMCDDA European project on water (EUSEME) detected crack cocaine residues in all 13 European cities that participated, with the highest loads in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Antwerp (Belgium).
Not that it is respected to me, “in Germany and the Czech Republic, Cyprus, in Spain, in Turkey in several countries in Northern Europe (Denmark, Lithuania, Spain, in Turkey in several countries in Northern Europe) Finland, Norway) .
The level of amphetamine residues varied between cities, with the highest loads being reported in eastern European cities (Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland) and much lower levels in southern cities, although more than half (28 out of 55) of cities with data for 2021 and 2020 reported an increase in waste found.
MDMA was the “only drug” on which the differences differed. in most concerned cities.
The study justifies this trend, in which almost two cities in cities with data related to the 2021 and 2021 and 2021 pandemic (38 out of 58) reported a decrease in loads in 2021, “possibly due to the price of entertainment venues during Covid-19”. 19 , where this drug is frequently consumed”.
The closest MDMA leftovers were found in cities in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.
According to the EMCDDA, the study reveals differences between cities of the same, which can be explained according to their different social characteristics (distribution, universities, nightlife, among others).
“In most countries with multiple study sites, bodies found were more similar in small towns than in major sites, in the case of three stimulants. No such differences were found for amphetamine and cannabis. Seventeen of the countries that participated in data collection21 included in 2 or more study sites,” the report explains.
With regard to consumption, wastewater analysis detected fluctuations in weekly drug use patternswith more than three weeks of second economy scenes, after three weeks of much of the economy than during the week, despite having had most of the economy during the week closed in Europe in 2021.
In contrast, residues from other drugs were more evenly distributed throughout the week.