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Narcotics: Under the UN Drug Convention Austria is obliged, on the basis of international law, to prosecute narcotics abuse and to take measures against narcotics trafficking. The Narcotics Act defines certain substances as narcotics (heroin, LSD, cocaine, hashish, poppy straw, opium, captagon, methadone, morphine, codeine, etc., Drugs) and prohibits their production, import and export, purchase and possession as well as approbatory statements in public. Under certain conditions narcotics addicts receive low or no sentences, for example if health-related measures are deemed more appropriate ("therapy instead of punishment").

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