Drugs and drug addictions, perceptions and opinions in 1999: first results

Selected by the quota method, 2002 individuals from 15 to 75 years-old have been phoned and asked to give their viewpoints about different suggestions, during an interview lasting around twenty minutes. 

Once analysed, these data brought out a number of tendencies, which were compared with the results of previous surveys, each time it was possible. As the full survey will be published at the beginning of the year 2000, only the first results are presented here. Generally speaking, individuals possessing a higher education level, people who rather live in rather urbanized areas, and those who feel best-informed about drugs prove less apt to condemn drugs and drug users. 

They are also more favourable to risk reduction policies and to the notion of cannabis use legalization under some conditions. However, a high majority of the French agree about limiting damages caused by drug use.