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Young Bulgarians have used mostly cannabis in the last year, but heroin sends the most people to clinics, according to the annual report of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).

A new report points to an increase in the use of cannabis in Greece along with a significant decrease in that of heroin and other opioids.

A 66-year-old Greek national has been arrested at Athens International Airport for trying to smuggle more than 5 kilograms of heroin into the country, police said Monday.
The suspect was arrested on Sunday after arriving on a flight from Johannesburg via Zurich.

Turkish police seized yesterday some 127.1 kilograms of heroin in two separate operations in the eastern province of Van.

Some five kilograms of heroin capsules have been seized in the first ever anti-narcotics operation in the newly-opened Istanbul Airport.

Bulgarian customs officials confiscated more than 288 kilograms (635 pounds) of heroin hidden on a truck from Iran, prosecutors announced Thursday.

The haul was the biggest amount of heroin seized at Bulgaria's borders this year, the customs agency said.

Turkish security forces on April 15 seized some 285.6 kilograms of heroin in the eastern Van province, local police said.

A police narcotics unit in Crete arrested a man on Monday after discovering heroin in his car, a local news website reported.

The teams of the District Customs Directorate and Anti-Trafficking at the Turkish Ministry of Commerce seized 42 kilos of opium at the Hamsabayli-Lesovo border checkpoint at the Turkish-Bulgarian border.
 

Some 1.5 tons of heroin that was seized on Jan. 23 in Turkey's eastern province of Erzurum was the largest amount seized in a single anti-drug operation in the country, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said.