Survey: Favourite drugs in Berlin

A government survey of Berlin nightclubs and bars has found that half of partygoers take amphetamines and MDMA fairly regularly. It was the first comprehensive study of the use of club drugs in the German capital. Of Berlin's partygoers, more than half (50.3 percent) admitted to using amphetamines and almost half ecstasy/MDMA (49.1 percent) within the last 30 days. The next most popular party drugs were cocaine (36 percent) and ketamine (32.3 percent). About 12 percent of clubbers said they used the hallucinogen LSD, while 9.4 percent reported using GHB, which is meant for use in treating narcolepsy. The study found that other substances are also consumed in abundance. It found 87.7 percent of respondents said they had imbibed alcohol in the past month, 72.3 percent had smoked cigarettes and 62.3 percent had ingested some form of cannabis.