Drugs Victims Germany increases

- The number of drug-related deaths has risen in Germany last year to 1226, an increase of nearly 20 percent. This is evident from the figures on drug-related crime which presented the government commissioner responsible Marlene Mortler Thursday in Berlin.

The upward trend, which was started in 2012, is strongest in Hesse, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saarland. But in Berlin and Bavaria were counted significantly more drug-related deaths. In 84 percent of cases involved men. That's according Morler corresponds to the relationship among the addicts.

It is usually difficult to say anything with certainty about the cause of death. Overdoses and unfamiliarity with the acquired resources are possibilities obvious.,, Simple answers about the reasons for drug dependence do not exist, '' said Morler. Release of hard drugs reject them.