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The use of some drugs at certain doses can cause immediate or imminent death: this is what we call drug overdose death (see box below), which tends to affect relatively young people.
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.
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.
The processing of data from the 2005 « Health Barometer » (Baromètre santé) survey concerning the use of alcohol, tobacco and psychotropic medicines among senior citizens
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 for the Reception and Harm Reduction Support Centres (CAARUD)