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This thirteenth issue of Drugs, International Challenges is devoted to the prevailing situation in terms of drug trafficking, drug use and public policies in Georgia, a Caucasian country with a population of 3.7 million.
Since April 2004, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been compiling various key indicators each month as part of a "review on tobacco".
This eight-page document provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
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.
In this report, a multi-disciplinary attempt to synthesize available data and analyses on drugs and drug addiction has been made, in order to avoid the usual over-segmented approaches taken in this field.
Since 1999, the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND) unit of the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been monitoring emerging trends and phenomena in the field of drugs.
As the most widely-used illegal substance in France, more than one third of French 17-year-olds had used cannabis in the last year in 2011, and 7 out of 100 of them used it regularly (at least 10 times in the last month).
In March 2011, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction surveyed 27 402 metropolitan 17-year-olds on their use of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. Including this seventh edition of the ESCAPAD health and drug use survey, there is now over a decade’s worth of information available on drug use.
Two major surveys, conducted every 4 years for the past 25 years in the adolescent population, allow for an international comparison of drug use.
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.
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.
This eight-page document, produced by the OFDT, provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
Since 1999, the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND scheme) of the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been monitoring recent and emerging phenomena in the field of drug use.
This 2022 edition provides an overall perspective digest in 8 pages with the most recent and detailed facts and figures.
In French Polynesia, a major concern has arisen in recent years about the use of methamphetamine, imported from the United States in the form of crystals, known as “ice”.
Since 1999, the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND) scheme of the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been monitoring emerging trends and phenomena in the field of drugs in order to limit the time between their occurrence and their consideration by the public authorities.
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.
On the 20th anniversary of the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND) scheme and the National Detection System of Drugs and Toxic Substances (SINTES), the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) looks back on two decades of drug monitoring.
This issue of Tendances focuses on the description of the characteristics of CSAPA clients in 2014, and the changes since 2007.