Specificities of drug use at the age of 17 in Ile-de-France: regional exploitation of the 2002-2003 ESCAPAD survey

Its main aim is to provide precise national indicators, particularly in terms of trend, across an age bracket (17-18) which corresponds to a transition period in the drug use trajectories.

Even though the regular provision of national indicators has proved essential for understanding the uses of psychoactive products and for setting up public policies, the lack of indicators at a regional level is rapidly being felt. 

Faced with a growing demand from local players who wished to develop specific and targeted local policies, the OFDT developed a regional exploitation of the ESCAPAD survey. 

This has proved to be a good tool for this type of analysis thanks in particular to the territorial networking of the centres mobilised on this occasion and to the knowledge of the department of residence of the young people called up. 

Thus, by combining the databases of survey results from two successive years, it is possible to conduct regional studies across sufficiently large representative samples.