Based on the findings of the 2017 Health Barometer Survey of Santé publique France (data processed by OFDT) which interviewed over 20 000 people aged 18 to 64 years, this issue of Tendances describes the changes in illicit drug use and offers an overview of cannabis supply modes.
The objective of this issue of Drugs, international challenges is to take stock of the relations sustained by drug control and development policies, initially returning to the concept of "alternative development" so as to clarify its intricacies and limitations.
Since 1999, the OFDT TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) has been monitoring current trends and those concerning emerging phenomena in the field of drugs.
Since 2007, OFDT has been publishing Drugs, Key Data, an overall perspective digest with the most recent and detailed facts and figures.
In the 2000s, a new method was developed for estimating psychoactive substance use: testing drug residues in sewage. Ten or so years later, this innovative method, sewage epidemiology, is now applied in numerous countries.
Since 1999, the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND scheme) of the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been monitoring recent and emerging phenomena in the field of drug use.
This briefing is structured in three parts. It first presents the international legislative framework established by the United Nations and the European Union and laid down in three treaties: the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (amended by the 1972 protocol), the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and…
2015 was marked by record cocaine seizures - close on 11 tonnes - on French territory.
This issue of Tendances focuses on the description of the characteristics of CSAPA clients in 2014, and the changes since 2007.
An online survey among users of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) was conducted in France, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic in 2014, in the context of the I-TREND project, supported by the European Commission.
The phenomena which emerge from this fifteenth year of observation are a continuation of the previous period, with problems related to social instability among users and the resulting tensions still in the spotlight.
Studies on social cost allow public authorities to evaluate the economic burden of a social problem on the community.
Set up in 2000 by the OFDT in partnership with the National Service Directorate (DSN), the ESCAPAD survey has been focusing on late adolescence, providing information on a crucial period for psychoactive substance use in the general population.
This issue of Tendances presents the results of the INPES 2014 Health Barometer.
Results of the 4th national survey among users seen in harm reduction facilities (CAARUD).
This issue of Tendances focuses on the key results of the fourteenth annual TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) and the scheme's seven sites.
Precursor trafficking draws little attention as efforts are focused on seizures of finished products listed as narcotics. Yet, this trafficking is a reality that now touches all continents and makes use of all major global trade routes.
This briefing produced by the OFDT's TREND (Emerging trends and new drugs) Unit focuses on ketamine, a veterinary and human anaesthetic.
This issue of Tendances examines law enforcement on driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, reviewing the most recent trends in road traffic controls and driving under the influence enforcement, as well as the criminal justice system response to these specific alcohol and drug issues.