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Since the 30th of January 2002, any doctor practising in ahealth 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 TREND system for 2006 in addition to the initial observations for 2007, which are currently being analysed by the various sites in the TREND network.
This eight-page document provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
The study was carried out in remand centres. The patients described in the survey are consequently prisoners awaiting trial and convicts whose remaining sentence is less than one year or who are awaiting a transfer to an établissement pour peine (penal institutions, detention centres, etc. for convicted prisoners).
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 partners1 according to the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Equality.
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 / 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 edition of Tendances presents the main results of the seventh year of operation of the TREND system (recent trends and new drugs).