Young people in particular have recently been increasingly taking particularly potent, synthetic opioids to get high. Experts fear a drastic increase in the number of drug-related deaths.
They know that things can’t go on like this anymore. That their drug use has reached a dangerous level. That’s why more young people than usual are currently struggling to seek help. But Siegfried Gift can currently only put off many of those who come to him. “Our capacities are no longer sufficient to cope with demand,” says the social worker who heads the “Youth Addiction and Family Support” department at Condrobs in Munich, an association that is committed to addiction prevention and help.