In total, 731 collections of psychoactive products were carried out under the OFDT's SINTES system in 2023, an increase of 17% compared to 2022.
10 thematic workbooks describing the national situation on drugs in France in 2023.
Results of the ESSPRI survey evidence a significant exposure to psychoactive substances among adult male inmates in mainland France, regardless of sentences lengths, irrespective of prison type and criminal status (awaiting trial or convicted).
An overview of the criminal justice responses to offences related to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs since the 1990s.
The aim of this document is to present updated data on opioid substitution treatment in France. It is based on the latest available data, the year of which may vary from 2019 to 2022 depending on the source and the treatment period.
What is the extent and nature of illicit drug use in prisons in France? What are the consequences and what responses are being provided?
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 the 30th of January 2002, any doctor practising in a health establishment is authorised to suggest a methadone-based substitution treatment to adult, opioid-dependent addicts.
Results of a prospective study involving 507 patients incarcerated in remand centres between 2003 and 2006.
In France, during the first nine months of 2006, a total of 113 homicides were committed between intimate partners according to the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Equality. Alcohol was a factor in a quarter of these cases.
This summary highlights the results from a survey carried out in 2003 through a questionnaire set up by the OFDT, and covering 157 prisons.
The use of illicit drugs and criminality enjoy powerful media visibility and give the curious bystanders something to talk about; they fascinate and at the same time arouse fear and incomprehension.
Although the forms and organisation of drug trafficking in France obviously have their own logic, they are also the consequence of a public policy and the ways in which the institutions responsible have implemented this policy.
The analysis of the relationships between alcohol and various "high-risk" or "problematic" behaviours has focused upon measuring a connection.