Below is a great little excerpt detailing the drought situation across Europe, I thought you guys on this thread would find it interesting since their seems to be a genuine lack of anything authoritative regarding the situation on the continent. Full journal is here:
http://www.idpc.net/sites/default/files/library/IDPC-briefing-paper-heroin-draught.pdf
Country Albania
Shortages, at time severe. Prices more or less stable,
but quality very low.
Aksion Plus (NGO)
Denmark
Mixed reports, but no severe shortage. Shortage of
Afghan (brown) and total lack of South East Asian
(white) heroin in June/July 2010, but supplies have
since resumed. Decreased purity in street heroin over
past year or more.
Danish Street Lawyers & Danish
Drug Users’ Union
Eire
Severe shortages, price increases and decreases in
purity.
Online drug users’ forums, News
media.
France
No firm reports of shortages, but some suggestions of
disruption at street level markets. Mixed indications.
Online drug users’ forums and Swiss
Federal Office of Police FEDPOL.
Germany
Mixed reports. No shortage reported in Berlin. NorthRhine-Westphalia region reported increased prices
and poor quality 6 months ago, but heroin flow has
since resumed.
AZKEPT (NGO)
Italy
Shortages, at time severe, particularly in Northern Italy
but affecting much of the country, with the exception of
Naples. Purity greatly reduced.
Drug treatment services
Netherlands
Mixed reports, but shortages and price increases
reported in Amsterdam over last 6 months.
Drug consumption room, Amsterdam
Russian Federation
Shortages, at times severe, across much of the
country and worsening through 2010. Reduction in
purity, increases in prices. Major transitions to use of
alternative drugs by users.
Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health
and Social Justice, Moscow (NGO)
Serbia
Shortages, at times severe, since March 2010.
Reduced quality, (from an already low base of >5%).
VEZA (NGO)
Slovenia
Shortages, at times severe. Reduced quality, increased
prices (doubled).
STIGMA (NGO)
Sweden
No shortage reported, both Afghan (brown) and South
East Asian (white) “very easy” to obtain.
Swedish Drug Users’ Union
Switzerland
Shortages, at times severe, in Northern, Western &
Eastern cantons. Increased prices, decreased purity.
Federal Office of Police (FEDPOL)
United Kingdom
Shortages, sometimes severe, reported since
September 2010. Steep decline in purity followed
by increases in price. The shortage has affected the
whole of the UK.
Drug testing services, Metropolitan
Police, drug user groups & online
forums, treatment services