Drugs in Denmark

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Abstract
The use of drugs among young people in Denmark is a relatively new phenomenom. In 1967 the Danish government established a committee whose job it was to collect information about the extent and character of drug use among young people. The sociological results of these investigations dealing with hashish, marihuana, amphetamines, LSD, mescaline, opium, morphine and glue sniffing are discussed. The 2 areas (a city Roskilde and an island Bornholm) in question were picked because of their differences in several respects: size, population density and distance from the capital (Copenhagen). The purposes of these researches were to obtain knowledge about the number of drug users among young people in these areas, about the recent development of drug use among young people, and about social variables in drug use, to compare young people inside the educational system with those outside the educational system, and to provide information through statistical measures for a picture of the drug situation in the country as a whole.

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