Why Is the Number of Drug Deaths Increasing, Mr. Streeck: "We May Be at the Beginning of an Opioid crisis."

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The drug officer Hendrik Streeck calls for more addictive substances in Germany. Which substances he thinks are particularly dangerous – and how we should protect children from them.

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The Federal Government Commissioner for Addiction and Drug Issues, Hendrik Streeck (CDU), believes Germany is ill-prepared for a potential opioid crisis. "As a government, we spend billions on many things, but fail to reliably finance addiction support," Streeck told the "Tagesspiegel" newspaper. Many providers live from project to project because addiction support is not a legally mandated obligation. "We may be at the beginning of an opioid cr…