Monitoring of the press publications about drugs and drug addiction (2020 – 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

Number of Bulgarian print media publications in the field of drugs and drug addiction (2020 – 2024)

Newspaper2020202120222023 2024
“Telegraph”279352387342406
“Bulgaria dnes”410322240144275
“Trud”203238245172222
“Weekend”721179769116
“24 chasa”1608514785114
“Duma”2324425381
“Galeria”5958523135
“L’Europeo”19
“Doctor”111417
“Filter”21515
“Lechitel”4314
“Capital”144410
“Lichna drama”9
“Standart”75455
“Naroden lechitel”1
“Vsichko za semeistvoto”211
„Cosmopolitan“ (BG)1
“168 chasa”782332
“Monitor”14313731
“Zemia”16102211
“Sega”345
“Zdrave za vsichki”33
Общо1454137913499421341
Note: In 2020 and 2021 the newspapers “Sega”, “Lechitel”, “Zdrave za vsichki”, Vsichko za semeistvoto” are not included in the monitoring of publications. The newspaper “Filter” begins to be published in 2022. In 2023, “168 Chasa”, “Monitor”, “Sega” and in 2024 – “Zemia” and “Zdrave za vsichki” stop being published.

Type of publications in the field of drugs and drug addiction (2021 – 2024)

Type of publicationNumber of publications 2021% 2021Number of publications 2022% 2022Number of publications 2023% 2023Number of publications 2024% 2024
News1047,51319,7838,815711,7
Brief information74454,058943,750753,845533,9
Article51437,358943,731833,868551,1
Interview161,2312,3343,6443,4
No data10,190,700,000,0
Total1379100,01349100,0942100,01341100,0
Source: National Library St. St. Cyril and Methodius, NFP, NCPHA