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.
Initial results of a reimbursement data analysis on more than 4 500 patients in 2006 and 2007.
The public authorities and health and prevention activists are paying particular attention to the use of psychoactive substances in adolescents.
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.
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.
The profile and practices of drug users from the national users survey of the harm reduction facilities, Reception and Harm Reduction Support Centres (CAARUD).
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.
This issue of Tendances presents the initial results from the French section of the HBSC survey (Health Behaviour in School Aged Children) carried out in 41 countries or regions throughout the western world.
This issue of Tendances presents the main results from the Recent Trends & New Drugs scheme (TREND) for 2006 in addition to the initial observations for 2007, which are currently being analysed by the various sites in the TREND network.
Results of a prospective study involving 507 patients incarcerated in remand centres between 2003 and 2006.
This eight-page document provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
Public health professionals have been concerned about the growth of ecstasy use among electronic music enthusiasts for some fifteen years.
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.
The data presented in this issue of Tendances have been collected as part of the RECAP survey (Recueil commun sur les addictions et les prises en charges or Common data collection on addictions and treatments) carried out in 2005 at a national level for the first time.
While the question of the international trafficking of cocaine, in both its criminal and geopolitical dimensions, is relatively well known and investigated, the same cannot be said for local dealing, in close proximity with the end-consumer.
This issue of Tendances presents the main results of the seventh year of operation of the TREND scheme (recent trends and new drugs).
Four years after an initial survey into the application of the "Evin law" in high schools, a new survey examines changes in the rules concerning tobacco and its uses.
Within the framework of the government's action plan against illicit drugs, tobacco and alcohol (2004-2008), a prevention programme against cannabis use has been up.
The 2005 ESCAPAD survey (Survey on Health and Consumption on Call-up and Preparation for Defence Day) is the fifth nationwide survey of its kind to be organised.
An analysis of the data from the 2005 Health Barometer, relating to psychoactive substance use practices among the adult population.