drug abuse in denmark jutland and funen a forensic study based upon drugs seized in 19821987 two thousand fiftythree samples submitted to forensic chemical analysis during the period 19821987 were characterized according to their content of narcotics and the year of seizure heroin and cannabis dominated the material but a significant decrease in the number of heroin samples was observed in 1987 amphetamine on the contrary hardly seen during the period 19821984 accounted for half of the narcotics submitted in 1987 the misuse of morphine especially in the form of poppy capsules was a problem for some years whereas cocaine has not yet been a drug of abuse in denmark the mean concentrations of the heroin and the amphetamine samples were 30 and 44 respectively both for retail drugs and the entire material