Drug use among adolescents in French overseas departements

The EnCLASS project, initiated in 2018, is the result of a collaboration between the French research teams of the Health Behaviour in School-aged children (HBSC) survey and the European School Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) surveys which, for the past 10 years, have been working to improve the observation of the health and behaviour of adolescents in France
 

As in Metropolitan France, the use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis among adolescents continues to fall in Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion, and the use of other substances remains rare. The spread of electronic cigarettes is continuing, to the point of overtaking that of cigarettes. French Guiana dif fers from the rest of the country in having higher levels of alcohol use and gambling, but less tobacco use. In Réunion, alcohol and nitrous oxide use is lower than in the rest of France.