About 200,000 persons use drugs in Israel, 20,000 of whom are addicted to hard drugs.
Those findings were reported by Chaya Heichal, national inspector of the Authority for the Fight Against Drugs in the Prime Minister’s Office, at a study day on drug addiction conducted this month at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Since 1982, cocaine use has increased to a current annual amount of 15 tons, 10 percent of which the police succeeds in seizing, Dr. Asher Punch of Bar Ilan University said at the forum.
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