Italian psychiatrists on Tuesday
sounded an alarm over the spread of new more powerful illegal
drugs or "reformulated" versions of old ones.
They said reinforced cocaine and cannabis as well as a myriad
varieties of amphetamines were flooding the market, drugs that
were much more dangerous than in the past and capable of
"driving mad" young people.
The phenomenon is now so widespread, they said, that there
are 40,000 admissions to psychiatric ERs every year now.
The new drugs are "too easy to get hold of, sold at too low
prices and too hard to identify," the psychiatrists said.
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