About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/957baee8f499374e8ec4c2f01ca679a541cd36a347530a9f408e3c51

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/957baee8f499374e8ec4c2f01ca679a541cd36a347530a9f408e3c51 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	Finns may be known for their love of vodka and beer, but growing numbers in the Nordic nation appear to have turned to amphetamines to cope with the coronavirus lockdown, health officials said on Thursday. Regular analysis of wastewater in the capital, Helsinki, showed a 15 percent rise in use of such stimulants since the government told people to stay at home in mid-March. Although researchers could not directly link the spike in drug use to the lockdown, "the fact remains that amphetamine use has been higher than ever before, at least in the Helsinki metropolitan area", said Teemu Gunnar, head of forensic toxicology at the National Institute for Health and Welfare. Amphetamines can be used to treat medical conditions such as ADHD, but is also taken recreationally, sometimes under the name "speed". Use of amphetamines in the country of 5.5 million people has tripled since 2013 according to wastewater studies, Gunnar said. However, Finns have not turned to other drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy or methamphetamines during the lockdown, the institute's analysis showed. He revealed the findings in a joint statement with the police, who said the analysis suggested amphetamine use in Helsinki had reached "record levels". Health officials have also begun analysing wastewater for traces of the coronavirus since the crisis began, as international studies suggest it can give a fuller picture of how much the disease is circulating among the population. The most recent results from the end of May suggest that, while the virus is still present in the major towns of Helsinki and Turku, coronavirus levels have dropped considerably in other parts of the country. On Thursday, Finnish health authorities said the estimated basic reproduction number is now between 0.75 and 0.80, marking a clear decrease over the past two weeks. So far the Nordic nation has recorded over 320 deaths and almost 7,000 infections of COVID-19. sgk/po/jxb
schema:headline	Amphetamine use soars in locked down Finland: study
schema:mentions	MDMA Helsinki Nordic countries Metropolitan area Wastewater Vodka Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Methamphetamine Finland Beer Cocaine Lockdown Virus Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Forensic toxicology Substituted amphetamine Amphetamine Turku Finns Finnish language Basic reproduction number
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2020-06-04 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	negative sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	76 (xsd:integer)
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion	happiness

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 11 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software