The vessel was equipped with antennas and a Starlink modem and two surveillance cameras: one on the bow and another inside to monitor the engine and transmission. Officials believe the sub was on a trial run to transport cocaine to the US or to Europe. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

We have been expecting you…

27 March 2025 the EU Drugs Agency organises a launch webinar on the EU Drug Markets Report module for MDMA. Feel free to register and follow some interesting presentations of experts in the field! Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happy to be part of this publication on the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology to estimate the retail illicit drug market in Europe. Via this link it is free to access until 2 May 2025! authors.elsevier.com/c/1klZi3PEro...

This is interesting analysis of the events…

The EU gave 350B, but he likes to be a big shot and take credit for others efforts

This. In Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we say ‘whit’s fur ye, ‘ll no go by ye’.

What a weekend, and it’s only Saturday.

📢 @EUDrugsAgency European Web Survey on Drugs 2024: Key findings out today! www.euda.europa.eu/ewsd2024_en

New report shows US cannabis industry life cycle emissions are 44 Mt CO2e/year, equalling those of 6M homes or 10M cars, 90% of which is associated with factory-farmed products. Energy use is 4x that of beverage and tobacco or pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing. 😟 www.cell.com/one-earth/pd...

It’s also disappointing that someone who wants to run HHS still uses obsolete stigmatizing language like “addict.” Here are some alternatives and why it matters.

EU agencies, member states, UK, US and UNODC colleagues in Lisbon yesterday to discuss ketamine trends during the #EMPACT meeting organised by Belgian Federal Police and @eudrugsagency.bsky.social with the support of the Portuguese Polícia Judiciária. #production #trafficking #distribution

Belgium presents results of drug checks in traffic, 2024.  📊 Key figures: • 12,636 DUID offences, (36 +ve drivers/day). • Most Detected: o Cannabis: 58% o Cocaine: 33% o Amphetamine: 13% • 15% of +ve drivers combine cocaine and cannabis. • Poly-drug use and NPS such as ketamine and cathinones ↗️

Why is anyone still on X/Twitter? 🤔

Great set of slides about natural, semi-synthetic, synthetic and ‘nature-inspired’ synthetic drugs shared over on LinkedIn by Istvan Ujvary. Slides originally presented @EUDrugsAgency last year. www.linkedin.com/posts/istvan...

“The president is said to protect him and share in his wealth.” The Netherlands most wanted cocaine trafficker is hiding out in Sierra Leone, according to reports. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

New University of Limerick project will study youth recruitment and participation in drugs markets in the European Union. www.ul.ie/news/new-ul-... @eudrugsagency.bsky.social

Non-US drug policy wonks everywhere…🫣

Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht www.bbc.com/news/article...

Linha de Cascais agora: perturbação. Acidente com peão.

Excellent post by Erik de Jonge on LinkedIn that illustrates the costs of the dumping of drug production waste in the Netherlands. Some responses raise the idea that users must partly bear responsibility. @EUDrugsAgency need to work more on this topic. www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-d...

Some great exchanges today in Brussels with participants in the course designed by the Council of the EU to prepare for the forthcoming 11th round of mutual evaluations on the topic of cross-border trafficking of illicit drugs. #EUDrugsAgency

Correlation and TEDI report on trends in samples analysed by drug checking services (2018-2024). A nugget: "Cocaine purity increased until 2023, but in the 1st half of 2024 it started to decline, with an increase in detections of the local anaesthetic procaine." correlation-net.org/2025/01/08/e...

Drug-related violence will be a main focus of the EU Drugs Agency's work in 2025. We need to mobilise, if we are to break the cycle... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBFl...

Who is correct??? Mexican President: no proof that fentanyl is produced here: www.barrons.com/news/no-proo... Mexican Army: 84 percent of the fentanyl drug laboratories seized are from Sinaloa (26 labs found between 2019 and 2024). www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/202...

Cocaine trafficking by Turkish Belgians, an Albanian-controlled quay in the port of Antwerp, corruption. This mega-trial of 104 accused will expose a lot of interesting details… politiko.al/english/e-tj...

🚨#Drugpolicy folks--please spread the word! 1⃣ Call for #ISSDP2025 abstracts is live 2⃣ Will be scholarships for ECRs, those from LMICs & those with lived and/or living experience of drugs--including family members This is my favorite conference! Please join us in #Manchester ➡️ www.issdp.org

Bad news that these fake oxycodone tablets containing nitazenes are circulating in the UK.

The EU Drugs Agency continues its ‘enlargement’. We are looking for a drug policy wonk this time. 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 January 2025 Apply here and find out more about this vacancy: lnkd.in/dgMjBeug

👍👍👍 This work will guide some of the activities of the new European Drug Alert System ‼️ being established at the EU Drugs Agency (EUDA), coordinated by the amazing @joannademorais.bsky.social 🤩

The UK seems to be particularly affected by potent nitazene-type synthetic opioids, contaminating the heroin supply. This article shines a light on one of the almost 200 families affected by a fatal overdose associated with these substances. www.bbc.com/news/article...

👀 Drug Alert: Fake oxy tablets seized by customs in New Zealand, prompting a health alert. The yellow and green tablets contained potent nitazene-type synthetic opioids with a similar or greater potency than fentanyl. Article also contains harm reduction advice. www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/12/w...

This is definitely worth a listen. Law enforcement in neighboring countries need to pool resources and share information as a matter of routine these days to prevent this type of crime.

Re-connecting with colleagues from all over Europe and beyond at the 8th Annual Drugs Conference at Europol in The Hague 🇳🇱

Well, that is a surprise… followed by Imran Khan. Anyone else had a weird follow???

@EUDA (EU Drugs Agency) has opened a position for a Chief Scientist. See e-recruitment.emcdda.europa.eu/e-recruitmen...

My intervention during the first plenary session of the European Conference on drug related violence #BreakTheCycle

@EUDrugs Agency team heading home from Brussels after an intense week. Great decision to work with ZN on this project. Thank you for all the support!

🌍Efus is proud to participate in the first European Conference on Drug-Related Violence, organised by the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA). ➡️ Efus' Executive Director, Elizabeth Johnston, participated in the session "Health, Justice, and Social Responses to Drug-Related Violence". #BreakTheCycle

One of the things that makes me happy to work at the EU Drugs Agency - the opportunity to visit real drug experts working in the EU Member States. This week, I joined a group of colleagues visiting the forensic laboratory of the Portuguese Judicial Police . They gave us a very warm welcome!!!

Been on here for a few days now and I have close to 100 followers. Happy with the result and glad to be free of the X-shackles, with a more meaningful and manageable feed.

This thread highlights the European approach. The EU Drugs Agency is a baby, born 2 July 2024. We’re just getting started under the leadership of @alexis-gsdl.bsky.social #BreakTheCycle #BuildTheFuture

Dutch police find a garden gnome weighing 2kg made entirely of MDMA… You can’t make this up. nltimes.nl/2024/11/22/p...

The ability to mute certain words seems like quite a useful feature…

With the caveat that someone might have done this already ... I've created a Drug Policy starter pack. I'm sure it's missing lots of people, so do shout if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/BhiCbGn

We’re just one week away from the first European Conference on Drug-Related Violence! >60 amazing speakers make this a unique opportunity to bring together thought leaders to share perspectives, and help shape a safer and more secure future. 🗓️ November 26-27th | 📍 Brussels

Busy week, it it only Wednesday? ✅ Visited forensic lab of Portuguese Judicial Police ✅ Planning for 2025 European Drug Report ✅ Preparing the European Conference on Drug-related Violence ✅ Briefing partners from EU Member States on precursors and drug-related homicides work

Ecstasy tablets containing a mixture of MDMA, caffeine, methylene, phenethylamine and dipentylone circulating in Malaga. Alert by Spanish drug checking service EnergyControl. #EUDrugsAgency