The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) have published their quarterly newsletter Drugnet  Europe 70 (May 2010).  This issue includes the following:  record number of new drugs in 2009; EMCDDA and ECDC assess anthrax outbreak among heroin users; global audit of HIV services for IDUs reveals low levels of provision; sharing information on drug treatment demand in the Mediterranean; drug use and pregnancy — challenges for public health; latest analysis of cocaine market highlights ’secondary extraction’ laboratories in Europe.

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Europe’s drug agency, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, reveals in its 2009 report that the majority of online retailers identified (115) in its annual study were based in the UK at 37%.  Following the UK are Germany (15%), Netherlands (14%) and Romania (7%).