According to a report on the drug situation 2002 the amount of criminal charges due to violations of SMG rose from 7805 persons in the year 1992 to 21302 persons in the year 2001 in Austria. During the ÖVP-FPÖ coalition a dramatic increase of charges was registered, almost 4000 persons more than in 1999 were arrested due to violations of SMG. One of the reasons for this increase may be a change in the law concerning the amount of heroin considered as negligible (used to be 5 grams, now 3 grams). Notable is also the extremely high amount of “first-time-arrests” of 11033 persons, many of which were simple drug users (according to the drug laws the use of drugs alone is not punishable, but some federal state courts seem unaware of this fact).