This briefing paper presents an overview and traces the main developments in the chemsex phenomenon in France over the past fifteen years.
In France, half of 17-year-olds have tried cigarettes, and nearly a third have tried cannabis. How do parents deal with this reality? The ARAMIS 2 survey questions parents of young consumers about parental control over their use.
The OFDT presents the results of a survey on professional practices and care pathways for alcohol users within three medical addiction microstructures (MSMA).
The 2022-2023 National Adolescent Health and Substance Use Survey in Middle and High Schools (EnCLASS) interviewed a representative sample of pupils enrolled in high schools about their health, lifestyle habits, and possible use of psychoactive substances.
OFDT has published its annual report on tobacco smoking and tobacco cessation in 2023 in France.
At the request of public authorities, OFDT and Santé publique France have taken stock of available public data pertaining to the tobacco supply for smokers in France, between 2014 and 2022.
Results of the ESSPRI survey evidence a significant exposure to psychoactive substances among adult male inmates in mainland France, regardless of sentences lengths, irrespective of prison type and criminal status (awaiting trial or convicted).
The end of adolescence is the window of opportunity to try out gambling, the early and repetitive practice of which is likely to lead to problem gambling, much as the use of psychoactive substances.
The Tabatraj survey, conducted with approximately 70 participants who have recently quit smoking revealed that there are various and accumulative reasons for giving it up. Over time, smokers make several attempts to stop, and adjust their chosen cessation strategies
This year, 132 specialised drug treatment centres (CSAPA) participated in the RECAP survey (common data collection on addictions and treatments), out of a total of around 500 CSAPAs, providing data on more than 210 000 patients.
For the past two decades the Survey on Health and Use on National Defence and Citizenship Day (ESCAPAD) conducted by the OFDT has made it possible to quantify the use of psychoactive substance by 17-year-olds at a regional level.
An overview of the criminal justice responses to offences related to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs since the 1990s.
A total of 623 psychoactive products were collected under the SINTES scheme in 2022, an increase of 18% compared with the previous year.
This document provides an overview of the supply, uses, and the social and health consequences of alcohol consumption in France in 2022.
This document, produced in collaboration with the Regional Health Observatories of Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion, presents the results of the EnCLASS 2021 survey in these three territories.
In recent years (2016-2020), an average of 180 000 people have been arrested every year by law enforcement services (police and gendarmerie) for a drug law offence in France.
This overview describes and evaluates the current crack cocaine situation in Île-de-France in order, in particular, to improve the treatment of users and, more generally, the response of the public authorities to a phenomenon that has been identified for around thirty years.
The aim of this Théma is to provide an overview of the situations and problems currently observed in the French overseas territories with regard to drugs and addictions, based on the most recent statistical data and the main studies carried out in these territories.
2015 was marked by record cocaine seizures - close on 11 tonnes - on French territory.
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.