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  • Year after year-records corroborate the fact that the number of drug abusing consumers in the country under study is startling. Following the findings

    arrived at by ONLCDT, Algeria involved more than 37600 drug abusers in 2016, majorly young men who could be (ex)-prisoners, criminals, psychiatric cases or simply ordinary drug addicts. Whatever their socio-economic (privileged or under- privileged background-) situation: (primary, middle, high) school pupils; university students; (non-) workers, they all succumb to the psychoactive temptation. The results obtained by the office in this same year show clearly that cannabis resin is still the most consumed. 226 foreigners have been caught among the population below,