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Figure 5.2 Numbers registered with (outpatient) addiction care for primary or secondary Ecstasy<br />

problems from 1994 I<br />

1000<br />

Number<br />

900<br />

800<br />

700<br />

600<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008<br />

Primary<br />

Secondary<br />

29 208 398 457 340 252 241 225 250 277 291 293 228 239 191<br />

32 321 552 672 607 549 573 563 622 655 750 781 715 663 571<br />

I. In 1994 the registration of Ecstasy problems was not yet complete. Source: LADIS, IVZ (2009).<br />

Amphetamine<br />

• The number of clients with amphetamines as the primary problem rose until 1998,<br />

followed by a drop, but rose again between 2001 <strong>and</strong> 207. Between 2007 <strong>and</strong> 2008<br />

this rise did not continue (Figure 5.3).<br />

• The percentage of amphetamines in the entire treatment dem<strong>and</strong> for drug problems<br />

remained low throughout the years under review (between 2% <strong>and</strong> 4%).<br />

• Per 100,000 inhabitants aged 15 <strong>and</strong> older, LADIS registered eleven primary amphetamine<br />

clients in 2008 - more than in 1994 or in 2001 (4 in both years).<br />

• In 2008, nearly a quarter (23%) of primary amphetamine clients were first-time<br />

clients of (outpatient) addiction care for a drugs problem.<br />

• The majority of clients with a primary amphetamine problem also reported problems<br />

with other substances (79%).<br />

• For about nine hundred clients amphetamines were a secondary problem in 2008.<br />

This represents an increase of 4% compared to 2007. For this group, the primary<br />

problem was heroin (59%), alcohol (25%), cannabis (6.4%), or cocaine or crack<br />

(2%).<br />

5 Ecstasy, amphetamine <strong>and</strong> related substances<br />

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