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Detection of problem cannabis use: The Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST)
As the most widely-used illegal substance in France, more than one third of French 17-year-olds had used cannabis in the last year in 2011, and 7 out of 100 of them used it regularly (at least 10 times in the last month).
To better understand the health and social problems likely to accompany this cannabis use, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) developed a scale for identifying problem cannabis use.
This scale is called the Cannabis Abuse Screening Test, or CAST. The OFDT's May 2013 publication of Drugs, addictions and key data provided an opportunity to conduct an initial survey of the proportion of 17-year-olds with a high risk for problem drug use in France.
This memorandum refers to the implementation of this scale and the calculation of our estimate.
Publication type
Briefing papers
No.
2
Publication date
Language
Français
Anglais
Author(s)
SPILKA
Stanislas
JANSSEN
Éric
LEGLEYE
Stéphane
Edited by
OFDT
Number of pages
9
Products & addictions
Cannabis
Themes
Users
Specific population(s)
Adolescents
Territories
France
Dispositif d'enquête et d'observation
Epidemiological surveys