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Consumption of Crystal Meth is rising again

New data on drug-related crime and the number of drug-related deaths in 2013 show: most drug-related crime in Germany is still strongly influenced by the fashion drug Crystal Meth. Especially in border regions.

The consumption of the highly addictive fashion drug Crystal Meth has risen in Germany for the eighth year in a row. The new data on drug-related crime, the Federal government and the Federal criminal police office on Thursday to introduce and the “image”-newspaper pre-templates. The greatest Crystal Meth-the finds there were in 2013, according to the report, in the border region to the Czech Republic. And particularly Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Bavaria and Thuringia were affected.

In 2005, the drug was still unknown in Germany

Accordingly, the police made sure in the past year, 77 kg (plus three percent) of crystalline methamphetamine. In 2012, there were 75 kilograms, at that time, 88 percent more than the year before. In 2005, when the drug in Germany, was still largely unknown, fell in narcotics just six kilograms in the hands. In the past year, the police counted out loud, “image” 3847 cases in which the Crystal has been confiscated. Nine illegal drug laboratories for the production of the uppers by means of entertainment had been above.