Hard Drug Users Arrested On Their First Offense in Germany 2011

"The overall figure for first-offence hard drug users increased from 2010 to 2011 by 14.5% to a total of 21,315 (2010: 18,621). As in the previous years, pronounced declines were found for heroin (2011: 2,742; 2010: 3,201; -14.3%). The number of first-offence hard drug users remained unchanged where the offence was in connection with cocaine (2011: 3,343; 2010: 3,211; +4.1%) and LSD (2011: 135; 2010: 141; -4.3%). For the first time since 2004, the number of first-offence users of ecstasy rose (2011: 942; 2010: 840; +12.1%).
"As in the previous years, the number of amphetamines users who came to the attention of the police for the first time115 increased (+11.5%) and reached a new peak in 2011 (12,709 cases; 2010: 11,401).
"At respectively low overall figures, the figures for first-offence methamphetamine users increased dramatically (2011: 1,693; 2010: 642; +163.7%) as did those for other hard drugs (2011: 897; 2010: 333; +169.4%). The figures for crack (2011: 438; 2010: 311; 40.8%) also increased considerably.
"First-time offenders in connection with amphetamines and methamphetamines accounted for a little less than 2/3 (62.9%) of the total of first-time offenders (heroin: 12.0%; cocaine: 1.6%, ecstasy: 4.1%, crack: 1.9% and others including LSD: 4.5%)116 in 2011. In this statistical documentation cannabis users are not taken account of since only so-called hard drugs are recorded (BKA 2012a)."