FPÖ-Seidl/Kohlbauer: take the ex-SPÖ district councilor's cry for help seriously on drug abuse in the LGBTIQ scene

Hacker needs to take action on drug prevention

Vienna (OTS) – According to the “Report on the Drug Situation” published yesterday, up to 40,000 people across Austria consume high-risk opioids, mostly in combination with other illegal drugs, alcohol or psychotropic drugs. Half of them live in Vienna, with three quarters of them being men and over 61 percent of consumers older than 35 years. In view of these figures, the health spokesman for the Viennese FPÖ, LAB Wolfgang Seidl, calls on the health and social city councilor to invest more in drug prevention, education and, last but not least, help. “According to statistics, the number of drug-related deaths in Vienna has risen again. 74 people lost their lives in Vienna in 2020 due to addictive substances – that is six more than in the previous year and by far the largest number in Austria. I am convinced that everything must be done to lower these numbers again,” says Seidl.

The FPÖ Mariahilf district party chairman Leo Kohlbauer describes the cry for help from ex-SPÖ Mariahilf official and district councilor Dorian Rammer in connection with the apparently massive drug abuse in Vienna’s LGBTIQ scene, which he published on “GGG.at”, as frightening. “We have to take the cries for help from addicts seriously and ensure prevention in the communities,” Kohlbauer is convinced and summarizes Rammer’s words as follows: “In his remarkably honest article, the former district councilor describes in a frightening way how an increasingly young audience is fighting against loneliness and saddened by a search for meaning in life, is lured into a trap of drug and chemsex parties and thus enters a spiral of dependency, which can also often be life-threatening.” Seidl and Kohlbauer agree with Rammer’s demand , to stop turning a blind eye to this problem.