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a virus spread. why do we panic and when we're. trying to just through the tap. and we couldn't read your blog. if you would like any information on the chrono laroche or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast if you get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us and call it science. it's tough being a teenager at the best of times during the pandemic it's so much worse homeschooling no hanging out with friends massive stress all because of code 19. in fact more and more young people are getting infected in germany the number of cases among teens rose 11 percent. lessons have until recently been tested less because

they aren't as impacted by the virus but they could be asymptomatic carriers recent outbreaks have been linked to them spreading the virus. don't just say vaccinations for kids are key to achieve the levels of immunity we need in our community. welcome to our coverage 19 special i want to get jones and like millions of us still waiting for my shot now the good news is worldwide more than a 1000000000 doses have by now been administered and teenagers in the united states have a clear advantage those age 16 and up can now receive the biotech prize a shot and anyone 18 and up can get the modern a shop for all of them this means the days of isolation assumed over. daily training during the pandemic that's how these 2 brothers have gotten through the last month both. get vaccinated yes as promised teenagers address the

near future being that age is hard enough with the cold restrictions it has been even more challenging i think for me it's a mental health and of course like school the thing i was worried like there being bag but then i went to school and debbie hine but i think their ways to catch up with academics might with growth and socialization you know it's that high that the school has been moved into the living room the boys convoyed to get their fix and to do so it keeps the people my people around me safer and i will keep myself safe to. bring a little normality back around this school exactly by the people in school because you know it is really difficult to interact people start people. and you know i

mean he's an awesome guy he's my brother. you know friend. them and additional obstacle mosques it's very hard to see people's expressions and it just it gives a sense of like you're talking to a wall. this is a body you. know you look at the u.s. this quick group of folks seem asians but what is in other countries restrictions remain i would definitely out of it is like my social skills. already played very well the more social i'm going personally. i think i would not really be good for me that's what i'm trying to go back to school b.c. brown is a social worker and sees the huge opportunity in teenage makes the nation teens need to be with their peers and need to be taking social risks and doing things on

their own outside of the confines of their family home for a teenager to have the opportunity to vaccinate i think is tremendous to give them that freedom to move about with a lot more confidence before both themselves and for their parents that they can go about their lives and do the things that they're developmentally supposed to be doing right now. outside of the u.s. most teenagers don't have access to the vaccine yet they have to find other ways to keep going. so the question is how long until young people can be vaccinated on a grand scale let's ask him k. he science communicator of the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies that's the. a good to have you with us as you know case numbers among young people are rising here in germany even number off new cases among teenagers actually know equal to those of older people of over 60 and so far as i know

there's no backseat in sight for the younger age group is there bearskin use one company has applied for approval for its vaccine for adolescents so it seems we're only weeks away from an approved vaccine for this age group also some other companies of developing their vaccines for this age group and even for younger children so most likely within the next months this year we will get 4 more vaccines which are approved for this h well that is good news indeed but i wonder why can't we just use the existing vaccines on teenagers just like they now do in the united states we need not change anything in the cocoa system it's all about safety so we can use those vaccines when we know that it's safe to use them in the is there's a group. also with children we can use the same vaccines but we need to know

what is the good appropriate those things. so what are the risks that we know about teenagers in children getting vaccinated will most likely the risks will be no. for adults this is something we need to know and that's why clearly coal trials mate with areas age groups to see if the risks indeed. and the benefit is high now of course this takes time i mean you say we're just weeks away from at least one vaccine for children which is brilliant in the meantime however do those risks outweigh the risk of catching the iris which as we know by now can lead to severe inflammatory reactions in children notice. or also long cove it well that's what trials of all they are designed so that you can

see that indeed back scenes are safe and once they are approved you can off of them to the parents and their children. with. a come from safety. and who is actually investing in that scene trials for children well all the companies that have. far they've all up vaccines for cope with 19 they invest in such trials right from the start they expected to develop vaccines for all age groups and the e.u. also expects a company to do so you just mentioned earlier and i have to get back to that because that is good news indeed we may have a vaccine ready for children in just a few weeks from now and there are several other trials underway. will this vaccine

only be available for children here in europe are we talking about a vaccine for kids all over the world these vaccine trials that are have being carried all of just being carried out they will lead to safety and efficacy data which can be used all over the world to apply for proveable and that's what the companies have in mind also the chinese companies which have to follow vaccines they have also included children in their trials so but yes well it can offer vaccines are suitable for children so hopefully within the next moments we will gather the set of vaccines approved for all age groups and then it's to politics and the logistics to get them out to every child in the world all right well let's hope that politics and logistics

are not getting in the way to get everybody vaccinated. from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies thank you so much for your time. suboxone nation is one way to train our immune system against the virus another is catching it and recover again but just as always we're at the time to ask derek. do asymptomatic people develop weaker immune responses than people who have more severe disease. ok this is going to get probably horrendously complicated because we're still so far from unraveling the immune system which which immunologists compared to to a ball of spaghetti which is a really brilliant image even understanding just why some

people can be infected yet show no symptoms is a really complicated task early in the pandemic studies that focused on antibody levels in patients and former patients indicated that people who got severe cases of coded 19 might have longer lasting immune responses and that you symptomatic people might be at more risk of getting the disease again at some point but but antibody levels are just one aspect of a new response a recently published study has no helped fill in some of the other gaps it looked at blood samples taken from several 100 mayo migrant workers in singapore who lived in densely inhabited dormitories during an outbreak there last spring and its findings agree with other research in one sense that levels of some antibodies

against cuba 19 and the men who got it a symptomatically did indeed fall more after convalescence than and those who had symptoms other immune response as our. including ones involving what are known as t. cells they remain fairly robust even in the asymptomatic group and that's being carefully interpreted as a sign that immunity by 8 generally remains strong for some time even in people who caught the disease but had no symptoms so so lots of ifs ands and buts like i said it's complicated. talking of complicated the relationship between the e.u. and astra zeneca it's anything but easy the european commission has just announced

its launched legal action against the british swedish drug maker for not respecting its contract for the supply of coke at $9000.00 vaccines $180000000.00 vaccine doses were agreed to for the 2nd quarter of this year but astra zeneca said it would aim to deliver only one 3rd of that to the block costello kuria kiedis the european commission of the health and food safety explained the decision on twitter saying every vaccine does counts every vaccine doses safe lives. and that's all for this edition of thanks for watching. and for food. that's the promise of the drug of the moment crystal meth. but the only ones dancing to high on the criminal cartels they work internationally and are increasingly brutal we investigate along the german border post new branch

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shut out we're not afraid to touch on the delicate topic of africa's population is knowing. and young people clearly have the solutions to your job. is 77 percent now you can't undo w o. much of the crystal meth that's consumed in germany comes from the czech republic here czech police carry out a drug raid meth is also produced in other countries. because they are flooding the market. that drug gangs are pushing into the european market

filling the gap left by check drug operations that have been busted. it is me are small this isn't smuggling it's a sophisticated highly profitable business and dutch police sees only 5 to 10 percent of total production and that gives you an idea of how much is actually on the market and. crystal meth is easy and cheap to produce and the profits for dealers can be enormous. leaving want to scupper still here we see a typical meth lab. well it can produce 20 kilograms over a 2 day cycle. and on the street a filo of meth sells for 600000 check crowns over. that's just over $23000.00 euros so 460000 euros for that in just 48 hours the average price per gram is $65.00 euros crystal meth normally 2

to intrude we've reached the point where people at all levels of society are using this drug in one's lucas says just because of the continued. this is rotterdam in the netherlands europe's largest seaport there's been a big increase recently and illegal imports of the chemicals that are used to make crystal meth. dutch journalists make fun felling says that the number of meth labs raided by police is rising fast since trade actions 15 jabs on $0.03 and about 20 of these labs have been identified huge labs that can produce $80000000.00

euros worth of drugs per month in normal hodes a lot of mexican cartels supply a lot of crystal meth for the european market it's pouring in with the components often hidden on board freighters like these the cartels have also sent their own meth cooks to europe to make the stuff. like a study on beginning of its crystal meth and it's extremely important for us to monitor developments in the crystal meth market very closely and of like ok you know it's we're not talking about small time cocaine or marijuana distributors here . these are the mexican cartels. and when they get into a market there's a big increase in drug production and drug related violence built here for we've seen that in mexico and they're moving into the market here. so as far as crystal meth is concerned the warning signals are flashing throughout europe where crystal

meth the needle. in june 29002500 kilograms of crystal meth were seized at the port of rotterdam the largest drug bust of its kind in europe. this is the very insidious passout we've come here to meet drug counsellor unitless clean. from 2003 until he retired last year cake was in charge of a therapy center that's affiliated with the catholic diocese of passout. he says there's been a big increase over the last decade in the number of people who've come to the center for help. the situation is serious in fact it's alarming we've even had a few deaths recently that puts 3 different. when clique walks through parts of town known for drug activity he can often grade some of the people there by name.

the number of addicts who've come to the center is increasing 20 years ago could have just a handful of clients 3 years ago there were 80 and now the number has risen to well over 100. and those are just the statistics from one counseling center. i think that is the consummate cop no one who uses crystal meth comes to my office on their own and asks me for help. all of our clients have been ordered to get counseling. a prosecutor will tell them sign up for a treatment program or go to jail but those people are just the tip of the iceberg well this is a huge problem is there power to be a police excited. but few people aside from you hears kook are sounding the alarm about crystal meth abuse and past. the hood give us insight from is when

things calm down a bit when a lot of people come to the mistaken conclusion that the situation is under control . as far as i'm concerned that's an indication that this drug has become part of everyday life in our communities and people just aren't concerned about it anymore if that's true and let me read some team or get more. but public apathy doesn't mean that the problem is any less serious now we're going to introduce you to a local resident who's been using crystal meth for 16 years. we've agreed to conceal his identity he says he even goes to work when he's high. my boss doesn't have a problem with me using drugs he doesn't know that i also use them on the job sometimes when i've been taking drugs i'll be late for work but the boss doesn't

seem to mind because i always do a great job. he estimates that about 20 percent of the people in his hometown hughes crystal meth. many of those who've taken the drug say that it gives them a rush of energy makes them more alert and enhances their overall performance. we've come to the bavarian town of by a white to media addiction therapist or downtown p.t. he's been working with crystal meth users for 3 decades including single mothers skilled workers and business managers he explains why people can quickly become addicted to this drug. is a cause for the crystal meth that sold on the street can be up to 90 percent pure a 1st time user who inhales $80.00 to $100.00 milligrams of the drug at that level of purity will soon experience

a sense of euphoria which is the maximum you could use a few days of movie crystal meth triggers the release of several chemicals in the brain that make people feel good cause and they keep taking the drug because they want this sensation to last the studio wanted to see the harm. but these feelings of euphoria are deceptive users often find that they need more and more crystal meth to achieve the same level of stimulation. and once the drug wears off they will likely experience withdrawal symptoms. just not through moon's shock because the big problem with crystal meth is that it's neuro toxic. that is it damages the nervous system it's what you call chronic meth abuse can reduce the amount of chemicals in the brain that make us feel good this is because this can lead to pity and even depression just problems to ask even consider it

if you keep using this stuff you'll eventually build up a tolerance so you have to take a larger amounts to try to get high and eventually you get to the point where it just doesn't give you that rush anymore you feel burned out all the time you can't feel anything anymore. this is the czech capital prague crystal meth has been produced here for decades even during the cold war and after the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 production increase child plea and distributors began exporting their drugs to draw money these days checks and vietnamese immigrants produce an estimated $10.00 tons of crystal meth every year a lot of it is shipped to neighboring germany. the

national czech police have created a special division to combat drug crime the division's director is yakob. he says he and his officers face an enormous challenge. one of their main tasks is to chip away at the production of crystal meth as part of that effort police have raided more than 200 drug labs over the last 5 years but as soon as they shut down one lab another one opens up somewhere else. just as you know all so the the situation has changed recently yes my you sports no matter what that of people you just care we're seeing that large organized crime groups which are made up mostly of vietnamese immigrants are shifting large scale production of crystal meth to other countries. to me and i ships the body

anything over 51015 or 20 kilograms is now produced outside the czech republic. not was i mean ixtoc. in some raids officers have seized up to a ton of crystal meth but this work often involves cross border co-operation with police in other countries. works closely with european customs author already is and the european law enforcement agency europol. and there's a new factor that's complicating the effort. the news was amy that mexican drug cartels are now setting up operations in the netherlands. here fleet which conducts an inspection tour along the czech german border. he explains that the mexican cartels have moved into the european market for crystal meth mostly because the czech government has cracked down hard on local drug dealers. freight

lease department has been expanded over the past several years and they're making life difficult for those who produce and distribute crystal meth in the czech republic so the mexicans have stepped in to fill the gaps their network even includes some of the vietnamese immigrants who used to make their own meth. dutch dealers used to earn a lot of money by selling drugs like ecstasy or amphetamines known as speed but now they can make even more by selling crystal meth. fleetingly says that the mexican cartels have priced the vietnamese right out of the market thanks to low overhead. will be able they can offer lower prices because they create so much product we're talking about hundreds of

kilos of crystal meth even tons of it. they don't produce the stuff here because there's not much local demand for. people used math quite a bit in the early 1990 s. but not today certainly not enough to justify massive levels of production with all the. times are tough for small vietnamese shops along the czech german border particularly those that can supplement their income by selling crystal meth not many people come here to buy drugs anymore these days they're often delivered by a quarry or or people order drugs on the dark web and they arrive in the mail regardless of the method an estimated 5 tons of crystal meth reaches the german border region every year. roughly the same amount stays in the czech republic

itself police managed to confiscate only about $100.00 kilos of it per year and despite what some officials say this country does have a serious problem with crystal meth addiction an estimated 35000 people are hooked on the drug. local producers are losing market share to meth that's shipped in from the netherlands and they're facing increased pressure from the german action police. law enforcement agencies from both countries have been working closely together since 2007 when border controls were relaxed under the shannon agreement the joint center for german czech police and customs cooperation is located in the town of shan doth a very. this facility is staffed around the clock officers exchange data follow up leads on drug cases organized searches and make arrests.

all this information flows into the data bank at regional police headquarters intrigues. detective chief superintendent christopher bagus says that crystal meth is a problem here but other drugs pose more of a threat. but insists are still in fist based on our statistics the drugs that are seized most often by our officers are heroin and cannabis. they also represent the largest quantities of the drugs that are confiscated. we carry out fewer raids that involve crystal meth and we seize smaller amounts of saugus if you're still in condemning and. in 2019 just under 2 kilograms of crystal meth or more seized in this part of bavaria that was about the middle of the pack a member of various 7 administrative districts. regardless of the statistics the

various health ministry has recently reported an increase in drug related deaths and drug users who've signed up for outpatient treatment how can we explain this discrepancy. is in with us has said as it does with the only drug cases that we hear about are the ones where the police get involved. and criminology and sociology experts make a distinction between crimes that are reported and those that aren't. so if police make a lot of drug arrests that will show up in the crime statistics and that's good. but if the police stopped investigating drug cases altogether the number of arrests would drop to 0 and the politicians would say that's good positive. police resources are stretched to the limit the authorities simply don't have the money or the personnel to track down everyone who produces and distributes crystal

meth so criminal are going to. stations like the mexican cartels feel free to move in but that may change soon. you know. over the last several years some german states have tried to add personnel where they can. the federal government has agreed to help state governments to do that but it's a slow process as an army officer stopped not us and police have lots of other priorities right now besides drug crimes. they also have to keep track of serious problems like islamist terrorism and right wing extremism there's extremist muslim terrorist most. so the effort to crack down on the use of crystal meth is pretty far down the list of police priorities meanwhile authorities have come up with an unusual new way to monitor the use of illegal drugs it involves analysis of sewage

. the european anti drug agency has been working with the score group since 2011 to monitor of waste water for traces of illicit substances several german cities are taking part. here at the sewage treatment plant in nuremberg an employee collect samples that will then be sent to the score analysis center in dresden the results will help the authorities quantify the scope of drug abuse. the latest samples from nuremberg indicate that consumption of crystal meth has jumped 30 percent since 2017 lots of people are able to buy the drug despite the restrictions imposed because of the covert pandemic the study also shows high rates of meth consumption in the german states of the varia the range and saxony but where are

the drugs coming from. chesham invoked the full ayatollah as crystal put it in the minds of the netherlands is moving ahead of the czech republic and the production of crystal meth will find this falling behind for discus that's clear from the statistics for the number of drug seizures particularly in the german state of north rhine-westphalia for this brutal and blindness fog and preliminary analysis and decades that the drugs were shipped from there to major german cities . left production facilities in the netherlands have done what the checks were never able to do flood big cities in western and central germany with large quantities of crystal meth. german authorities are calling for decisive action. caught us because look at this whole fish meal this is an open wound as far as crystal meth is concerned it and i hope that we'll be able to cooperate more

closely with our dutch colleagues in tomorrow and. they've indicated that they're willing to help us divide they don't want the netherlands to become the new center for meth production and they're ready to take action to do that kristallnacht to become dutch authorities often look the other way when it comes to the use of machine and marijuana but the last thing that they want is a new crystal meth industry run by mexican cartels. we're dealing with violent organized crime groups that distribute drugs on an international scale i think it would be naive to believe that we can solve this problem by legalizing these drugs. we have to strengthen our efforts to stop these groups that includes taking away the profits they make from selling drugs. and drafting laws aimed at preventing money laundering as part of a larger overall strategy chrissy's of teves. new develop. incent

international drug production and distribution require new law enforcement strategies among sebastien phaedrus top priorities are the creation of investigative units that target crime groups and national centers for crime prevention. cities that have a meth problem would benefit from a national strategy on preventing drug addiction and drug abuse counsellors would also welcome this development. now that vitamin founded a counseling center in november in 1980 today 20 percent of the people who come to him for help are addicted to crystal meth he says treatment should also be part of an overall preventive strategy. we've seen this is yet to see how to get specialist 100 if. the cost of addiction in our society is huge hundreds of billions

a year. and in that calculation you have to include the cost of people who lose their jobs or go into treatment or end up in jail. and as crystal meth abuse moves into the middle class more and more people will be affected and that will push up the costs to tackle feminism in an attempt that's malden prefocus nowadays you can buy meth on the web and it'll be in your mailbox the next day. so we have to find the people who are using those sites and offer them help. but to do that we need a digital infrastructure. that includes technical experts but all that will cost a lot of money and we just can't seem to find it a confessional slip through and if $1.00 knows that most politicians don't consider drug counseling to be a top priority. the

mexican cartels offer technical support to the crews in holland. that are making crystal meth. experts estimate that about 2 thirds of all the method seized by police in germany is now produced in the netherlands. in. reform to the cartels have been active in this market for the last decade and now they've become really powerful. we need to do a lot more to keep them in check here the dutch government is trying to find new ways to stop the spread of illegal drugs but they have a lot of catching up to do which is that adding in the neighboring countries are not exactly satisfied with the job we've done so far. the dutch authorities don't really want to talk about the situation but will. drug abuse is a sensitive topic in the netherlands so it's no wonder that police are reluctant to talk about it. and they launch i haven't really gotten

a story of synthetic drugs are part of our recent history that we started with amphetamines in the 1970 s. continued with ecstasy and now we've got a problem with crystal meth and the cartels. in mexico. and. the netherlands is ideally located for importing the raw materials that are used to make the drugs and there are 2 big ports here rotterdam and antwerp we are the gateway to europe and that's why the cartels want to take over this market. and if you're caught making drugs the penalties aren't very stiff just a few years in jail it's an ideal situation for the cartels. the cartels earn about 20000000 euros a year from the sale of synthetic drugs the profit margins are huge because the mexicans import cheap chemicals from asia to make the stuff. as the power of the

cartels increases police have reported a surge in contract murders and assaults and have found drug labs in remote locations in may 2020 dutch police raided a lab and seized chemicals and crystal meth worth an estimated 10000000 euros. the lab was located on a farm near a village just 20 kilometers from the german border police arrested several suspects including one each from mexico colombia and the united states. the raid was successful because dutch investigators had worked with police agencies in other countries. to track the crooks a special police unit kept the suspects under constant surveillance and a lot of hard work finally paid off. i actually called the police she didn't

take. the investigation and the run up to the raid took several months. of police managed to break into the criminals phones and decrypt their messages. gods this allowed investigators in france germany and the netherlands to monitor their conversations for months. but will this kind of international cooperation be enough to stop the spread of crystal meth. the visa mission de botton these indian via read through the policy documents of all the major political parties and they seem to be focused on how to fight the use of cannabis find politicians think it's a sexy topic and there are no proposals for dealing with more dangerous drugs like crystal meth emitted in the crystal meth and under 100 people. last seen shown in the news straight shower we have to confront this problem head on let's talk to the

people who are actually using drugs and offer them counseling as part of an overall preventive strategies or 2 to fish to deafen even cod these are told us in our english not get much feel as mentioned dissidents who these drugs are ruining people's lives. we can't ignore this kind of drug abuse and tell ourselves that everything's fine this past that people keep trying these drugs and then they become addicted to the drug abuse can destroy families people can lose their jobs because of it and some users end up in the psychiatric ward and some users end up dead it's a serious problem isn't it. criminal groups are simply providing hughes's with the drugs that they want to buy perhaps we should focus on how to keep people from taking drugs in the 1st place. i don't want to keep using crystal meth forever it just ruins your life. you

can't ignore the effect it has on your mind and body it makes you paranoid about things that no one else would notice. more and more people in europe are using crystal meth we have to deal with this problem before it gets any worse and the best way to do that is to develop a comprehensive prevention strategy that combines effective police measures with counselling in treatment for drug users who may be at risk.

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