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r <br /> <br /> Facthook The Netherlands and the United States http /Iwww drugwarfacts orglthenethe htm <br /> homicides, which is a homicide rate of 1 8 persons per 100,000 <br /> inhabitants. (Registered Murders in the Netherlands, Press Release, <br /> CBS Voorburg - Stat>stics Netherlands, 7/14/98). <br /> 3. "There were 2.4 drug-related deaths per million inhabitants in ' <br /> the Netherlands in 1995. In France this figure was 9.5, in <br /> Germany 20, in Sweden 23.5 and in Spain 27.1. According to the <br /> 1995 report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and <br /> Drug Addiction in Lisbon, the Dutch figures are the lowest in <br /> Europe. The Dutch AIDS prevention programme was equally <br /> successful. Europe-wide, an average of 39.2% of AIDS victims are <br /> intravenous drug-users. In the Netherlands, this percentage is as <br /> low as 10.5°/a:' <br /> Source• Netherlands Ministry of Justice, Fact Sheet: Dutch Drugs Policy, <br /> (Utrecht Tr>mbos Institute, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and <br /> Addiction, 1999), from the Netherlands Justice Ministry website at <br /> 4. '"The number of addicts in the Netherlands has been stable - at <br /> 25,000 -for many years. Expressed as a percentage of the <br /> population, this number is approximately the same as in <br /> Germany, Sweden and Belgium. There are very few young heroin <br /> addicts in the Netherlands, largely thanks to the policy of <br /> separating the users markets for hard and soft drugs. The <br /> average age of heroin addicts is now 36:' <br /> Source: Netherlands Ministry of Justice, Fact Sheet: Dutch Drugs Policy, <br /> (Utrecht: Trimbos Institute, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and <br /> Addiction, 1999), from the Netherlands Justice Ministry webs>te at <br /> 5. "Cannabis use among young people has also increased in most <br /> Western European countries and in the US. The rate of <br /> (cannabis) use among young people in the US is much higher <br /> than in the Netherlands, and Great Britain and Ireland also have <br /> relatively larger numbers of school students who use cannabis." <br /> Source: Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, Drug Policy <br /> in the Netherlands: Progress Report September 1997-September 1999, <br /> (The Hague: Ministry of Health. Welfare and Sport, November 1999), p. <br /> 7 <br /> 6. "The figures for cannabis use among the general population <br /> 3 of 5 02/27/2001 8 38 AM <br /> <br />