International - Greece

"In Greece, data from indirect indicators (treatment, deaths, low-threshold services) suggest that problem drug use is increasing."

Source:
European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, "2001 Annual Report on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union" (Brussells, Belgium: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001, p. 13.

"Drug-free treatment seems to be dominating the treatment offered in Finland, Greece, Norway and Sweden. The tendency in those countries is to have shorter treatment periods of three to six months instead of one to two years, although in Greece the mean duration of treatment is 12 months."

Source:
European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, "2001 Annual Report on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union" (Brussells, Belgium: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001, p. 27.

"Injecting drug use has decreased strongly during the 1990s in most, but not all, countries. As a consequence, rates of injecting drug use (measured among opiate users entering treatment) differ strongly, from a low of about 10% in the Netherlands to a high of about 70% in Greece."

Source:
European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, "2001 Annual Report on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union" (Brussells, Belgium: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001, p. 40.