Infographic: new psychoactive substances — notifications to the Early Warning System and seizures
Description
This infographic coming from the publication New psychoactive substances: 25 years of early warning and response in Europe — an update from the EU Early Warning System presents some key statistics on notifications of the new psychoactive substances to the EWS and NPS seizures (trends in the number and quantities seized), in the EU-27.
The source data for the graphics is available in the source tables on this page.
Source data
| Year | Aminoindanes | Arylalkylamines | Arylcyclohexylamines | Benzodiazepines | Cannabinoids | Cathinones | Opioids | Others | Phenethylamines | Piperazines | Piperidines and pyrrolidines | Plants and extracts | Indolalkylamines (Tryptamines) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| 2008 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| 2009 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 2010 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2011 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| 2012 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 2013 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 31 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 5 | |||||
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 26 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 3 | ||
| 2016 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 2020 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 5 | |||||
| 2021 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 4 |
| Year | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of seizures | 929 | 1301 | 1857 | 3264 | 5996 | 6475 | 7891 | 11410 | 25208 | 24154 | 34188 | 45950 | 37578 | 33618 | 22446 | 21235 |
| Year | Quantity seized (kg) |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 1.896 |
| 2006 | 22.601 |
| 2007 | 65.771 |
| 2008 | 62.241 |
| 2009 | 944.083 |
| 2010 | 1110.328 |
| 2011 | 676.245 |
| 2012 | 1805.11 |
| 2013 | 1940.076 |
| 2014 | 2925.087 |
| 2015 | 4599.363 |
| 2016 | 3174.617 |
| 2017 | 3018.414 |
| 2018 | 4118.687 |
| 2019 | 2042.926 |
| 2020 | 5133.833 |
| Category | Number of seizures |
|---|---|
| Cannabinoids | 6314 |
| Cathinones | 5501 |
| Others | 3922 |
| Arylcyclohexylamines | 2569 |
| Benzodiazepines | 1012 |
| Phenethylamines | 673 |
| Opioids | 594 |
| Arylalkylamines | 240 |
| Indolalkylamines | 231 |
| Piperidines and pyrrolidines | 157 |
| Piperazine derivates | 19 |
| Aminoindanes | 3 |
| Category | Quantities seized (kg) |
|---|---|
| Cannabinoids | 235.931 |
| Cathinones | 3307.094 |
| Others | 316.169 |
| Arylcyclohexylamines | 1189.84 |
| Benzodiazepines | 4.42 |
| Phenethylamines | 15.983 |
| Opioids | 10.734 |
| Arylalkylamines | 51.797 |
| Indolalkylamines | 1.225 |
| Piperidines and pyrrolidines | 0.57 |
| Piperazine derivates | 0.066 |
| Aminoindanes | 0.005 |
