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For the second time since 1999, the EROPP general population survey provides an opportunity to review the perceptions and opinions of the French population on the drugs and public actions that affect them.
This manual presents the main results of a European project whose purpose is to develop a common model of an Early Information Function for Emerging Drug Phenomena. This function should allow to identify and understand early changes in drug uses or new drugs more quickly than by using standard monitoring systems.
The link between parties, music and the use of psychoactive products is not new. But although techno parties have attracted the attention of drug specialists to this party use, the use that takes place in other cultural environments is less well known.
In around ten years, the Internet has totally transformed the access to and relationship with information on a global scale.
The use of illicit psychotropic drugs by people integrated into a business environment constitutes a very recent field of research in France.
Since the end of the 1990s, poverty, precariousness, exclusion, integration or reintegration have been at the heart of all the social debates.
This issue presents a summary of the data and results obtained from the TREND scheme (Recent trends and new drugs) of the French monitoring center for drugs and drug addiction (OFDT) in 2001.
Since 2000, once a year, the Health and drug use survey during call-up and preparation for defence (ESCAPAD) has questioned all the adolescents who attend their Call-up and preparation for defence day (JAPD) on the Wednesday and Saturday of a given week.
At the end of ten years' implementation of the law of 10 January 1991, known as the "Evin law", the preliminary results of the first national survey conducted across the whole of the French school community were presented on the occasion of world "No Smoking" Day on 31 May 2002.
A new survey among a national sample of general practitioners was carried out at the end of 2000-beginning of 2001 at the initiative, as in previous years, of the Observatoire français des drogues et des toxicomanies (OFDT).
Since 1995, the French monitoring center for drugs and drug addiction (OFDT), has been assigned the task of publishing a regular report on the state of the phenomenon of drugs and dependence.
The fourth edition of this report provides a clearer picture of the extent and complexity of the drug problem, how it has evolved over the past few years, and the measures implemented. The aim of this document is to put all the available knowledge into perspective.
Monitoring drug-using patients in general medicine: qualitative approach. Psychotropic drugs and dependence: users profiles and behaviour patterns.
The use of illicit drugs and criminality enjoy powerful media visibility and give the curious bystanders something to talk about; they fascinate and at the same time arouse fear and incomprehension.
Levels of use of alcohol, tobacco and psychotropic drugs do not come within the same context and do not even have the same history. However these three substances have at least two points in common: their use is legal and they are the only psychoactive products still used beyond the age of 60 years.
This summary sets out the observations from the second year of operation of the TREND scheme (Recent trends and new drugs).
Although the forms and organisation of drug trafficking in France obviously have their own logic, they are also the consequence of a public policy and the ways in which the institutions responsible have implemented this policy.
Sport is often associated with positive values in terms of health, well-being and social integration. Advertisements aimed at prevention of drug use sometimes present sport as an alternative.
The Institute for Health Monitoring (InVS) recently published a two volume report entitled "Contribution to the Evaluation of the Policy for Risk Reduction: SIAMOIS".
In Europe, France and the Netherlands both stand for opposite models of drug policies as far as public opinion is concerned.
