Young people are becoming less common, but nicotine consumption is increasing rapidly. How is that possible? Because of the increasing trend of e-cigarettes and nicotin bags. Experts warn of a huge increase in the number of nicotine addicts. Moreover, alcohol is still chic in Austria, and unfortunately there are also dead by illegal drugs on the rise.
The young people smoke fewer and fewer cigarettes, but this positive trend would sometimes be destroyed by an increased consumption of the “new nicotine products”, reported Viennese drug expert Martin Busch on Wednesday, which leads the “Competention Center Searches” by Health Austria GmbH.
The problem is that nicotine is quickly dependent on the suspected of carcinogen, and the long -term consequences of nicotine consumption with high dose are hardly estimated.
A third of smokers want to stop
In general, 21 percent of people in Austria (aged 15) smoke cigarettes daily, according to the expert. After this quota has shrunk for men for men and for ten years with women, there have been no significant falls in recent years. Almost a third of smokers would think of stopping. “This represents a great potential to reduce the number of affected people,” he said.
Alcohol fell, but only very slow
In the long term, the consumption of alcohol per head of the population would also go back in this country, says Busch. However, because this happens elsewhere faster, Austria is increasingly becoming a high consumer country for this “psychoactive substance,” it said. 15 percent of people consume alcohol to be harmful to health. This is more often the case for men (19 percent) than in women (eleven percent). “Finally, men die three to four times more often from alcohol -related causes than women,” said Busch.
Cocaine consumption is increasing, but heroin still dominates
The consumption situation is stable in illegal drugs from cannabis to heroin. About one fifth of the people (between 15 and 64 years old) has already tried cannabis, 90,000 have “cooked” at least once, the expert said. When it comes to cocaine consumption, there would be a clear increase, but “still at a very high level,” he said, “The risky drug use is dominated by the consumption of opioids such as heroin.” 40,000 people in Austria are affected, usually men for more than 25 years in metropolitan areas such as Vienna.
Deadly overdoses for drugs are increasing, the cause unclear
Although the number of consumers is “stable”, there were more and more fatal overdoses. From 2009 to 2014, the “Direct drug -related deaths” in Austria became much less, the number of 206 to 122 fell from 206 to 122. Up to 2023, it ultimately doubled because there was 256 drug death this year.
“The current data situation does not allow the causes to interpret the causes,” said Busch. Part of the increase can be due to aging consumers with a long addiction history. “Although they are well integrated into the drug AID System, they become multimorbide with increasing age, which lowers their tolerance limit and ultimately increases their risk of death,” he said, “Another explanation could be the increased purity of the substances that the Substances increases it increases the risk of an overdose “. The same quantity then includes more of the dangerous active ingredient.
Source: Krone
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