Drug-related crimes (Art. 354a – 354c) registered by regional and district courts within the territory of Bulgaria over the period 2013 – 2024

Prevalence of psychoactive substance use Prevalence of medication use Prevalence of drug use Drug Prevention

Treatment Supply Treatment Demand Health consequences Harm reduction

Drug-related crimes Drug market Drug use and prison Monitoring of publications Attitudes to legal framework changes

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Drug-related crimes (Art. 354a – 354c) (total)	1828	1667	1778	2117	2447	2402	2858	2812	3344	2977	3388	3315
with proceeding finished with sentence	1662	1555	1739	2079	2402	2360	2834	2778	3298	2938	3341	3258
sentence	717	648	769	942	1045	1016	1306	1351	1594	1382	1693	1709
conditional sentence	945	907	970	1137	1357	1344	1528	1427	1704	1556	1648	1549
acquittal	51	38	37	36	39	34	22	29	39	36	46	52
suspension	1		1	1	6	8	2	4	7	3	1	5
release from penalty	114	74	1	1				1
of which: committed by
one person	1588	1493	1681	2007	2308	2302	2750	2706	3217	2871	3260	3183
two persons	61	55	46	60	85	47	74	62	68	62	61	51
three and more persons	13	7	12	12	9	11	10	10	13	5	20	24
year of commitment:
the same year	672	704	657	1076	1067	1146	1320
the previous year	772	621	633	803	1031	889	1018
two or more years ago	218	230	449	200	304	325	496