AMSTERDAM: FACTS AND FIGURES 13. Drugs The Amsterdam policy on drugs is a purely pragmatic one. The capital has a population of more than 700,000, including approximately 6,200 hard drug users. The policy is mainly focused on discouraging the use of hard drugs and combating the drug trade. In addition, every effort is made to restrict the risks run by addicts themselves and the drug-related problems they confront the rest of society with. In the Amsterdam policy on …showed first 75 words of 1153 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1153 total…Aids or hepatitis B is much lower than in other European and North American cities. Compared with other large cities in Europe and North America, the drug addicts of Amsterdam are not responsible for large-scale crime. There is a growing desire among them to stop using drugs. Calculating over a longer period of time, the number of addicts in Amsterdam is declining. The reduction in the number of young addicts has been the most striking.