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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.
The profile and practices of drug users from the national users survey of the harm reduction facilities, Reception and Harm Reduction Support Centres (CAARUD).
There are many surveys and studies on drug use in adolescents or pupils in secondary schools, as drug use likely to continue into adulthood begins in adolescence.
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal substance in France, particularly in young people, despite a fall in use since 2002 after ten years of continuous increase.
The public authorities and health and prevention activists are paying particular attention to the use of psychoactive substances in adolescents.
Initial results of a reimbursement data analysis on more than 4 500 patients in 2006 and 2007.
For eight years now, in partnership with the Direction du service national (DSN, National Service Department), the OFDT has carried out a national statistical survey among 17-year-old teenagers: ESCAPAD.
The processing of data from the 2005 "Health Barometer" (Baromètre santé) survey concerning the use of alcohol, tobacco and psychotropic medicines among senior citizens
Up until the last few years in France, the treatment of cocaine users was not considered a priority for health professionals dealing with drug users.
This document describes a method making it possible to generate a new estimate of the number of regular users of opioids, cocaine or amphetamines experiencing major health or social problems due to their drug use.
The use of some drugs at certain doses can cause immediate or imminent death: this is what we call drug overdose death, which tends to affect relatively young people.
This eight-page document, produced by the OFDT, provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
The third edition (1999, 2002, 2008) of the Survey on Representations, Opinions, and Perceptions Regarding Psychoactive Drugs (EROPP) provided information about representations, opinions and perceptions French people have with regard to psychoactive substances and helped review changes in the French population's understanding and opinions related to drugs and the main public policies developed…
Forty years after the passing of the original 31 December 1970 law prohibiting drug use, this issue of Tendances analyses the trends in arrests for narcotics use and the subsequent sentences handed down by the French legal system.
The status of CAARUD (Support Centres for the Reduction of Drug-related Harms) has been accessible since 2006 to structures (e.g., "drop-in", needle exchange programmes, street teams and mediation teams) that carry out drug-related harm reduction missions.
The 11th year for the TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Dugs) helped analyse new trends and the most striking phenomena in drug use throughout France.
Building and analysing a demand function to measure the volume of cross-border cigarette purchases and subsequent tax evasion.
Results of the 2010 Health Barometer data on the use of psychoactive substances by adults.
In France, there have been several recent public reports (Trucy, 2006; INSERM, 2008) on gambling.
In March 2011, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction surveyed 27 402 metropolitan 17-year-olds on their use of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. Including this seventh edition of the ESCAPAD health and drug use survey, there is now over a decade’s worth of information available on drug use.
