The twelfth edition of the TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) took place in 2010.
In France, the levels of legal and illegal drug use in adolescence, as well as recent trends in such use, have been assessed over the last fifteen years or so through a group of representative surveys of the general population.
Since the French "delinquency prevention act" of 5 March 2007, which mainly aimed to "increase the efficacy of the legal system's handling of drug addiction", people arrested for narcotics possession and use can now be ordered by the courts to undergo an "awareness course on the dangers of drug and alcohol use".
What new psychoactive substances (NPS) are circulating in France? How are they used? Who uses them? What do we know about how dangerous they are? How can they be controlled? This issue of Tendances summarises what we know about these products.
The purpose of this publication is to periodically collect the most recent and most relevant key quantitative indicators of drug use, whether illegal substances, tobacco, alcohol or psychotropic medicines.
Given more intense illegal online gambling and in response to high European demand to open the gambling market to competition, on 12 May 2010 France opened "a controlled online gambling market to competition" in three areas: sports betting, horse race betting and poker.
The TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) established by the OFDT in 1999 endeavours to detect emerging phenomena and trends in illegal drug use, including trends in substances, supply, routes of administration and user profiles.
The Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories law of July 21, 2009 (the so-called "HPST law") established a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to all minors.
Every four years, the ESPAD (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) survey analyses and compares psychoactive substance use among 16-year-olds in more than 30 European countries.
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.
At the end of the 2000s, the OFDT's TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs), which focuses on following intense drug-using populations, revealed trends on access to freebase cocaine - including crack cocaine - and its use.
Launched in March 2003 by then President Jacques Chirac, the first French Cancer Plan (2003-2007) embodied the government's renewed dedication to addressing this topic.
Nearly twenty years after they were first launched in France (1995), opioid substitution treatments (OSTs) remain a cornerstone of the country’s harm reduction policy.
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.
Since 2007, OFDT has been publishing Drugs, Key Data, an overall perspective digest with the most recent and detailed facts and figures.
Results of the 4th national survey among users seen in harm reduction facilities (CAARUD).
This issue of Tendances presents the results of the INPES 2014 Health Barometer.
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.
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.
This new version of the French results of the most recent international "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children" survey (HBSC) specifically sheds light on the introduction to psychoactive substances among the younger generations aged 11 to 15.