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Set up in 1999, as a part of the implementation of the three-years plan for the fight against drugs and to prevent dependence, SINTES (the national poison/substance identification system) has made up for the lack of data on synthetic drugs consumed in France.
Although an essential indicator of public health, mortality due to illicit drugs is not well documented in France.
Since 2007, OFDT has been publishing Drugs, Key Data, an overall perspective digest with the most recent and detailed facts and figures.
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.
In the 2000s, a new method was developed for estimating psychoactive substance use: testing drug residues in sewage. Ten or so years later, this innovative method, sewage epidemiology, is now applied in numerous countries.
The profile and practices of drug users from the national users survey of the harm reduction facilities, Reception and Harm Reduction Support Centres (CAARUD).
This issue of Tendances examines law enforcement on driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, reviewing the most recent trends in road traffic controls and driving under the influence enforcement, as well as the criminal justice system response to these specific alcohol and drug issues.
In Europe, France and the Netherlands both stand for opposite models of drug policies as far as public opinion is concerned.
Forty years after the passing of the original 31 December 1970 law prohibiting drug use, this issue of Tendances analyses the trends in arrests for narcotics use and the subsequent sentences handed down by the French legal system.
Monitoring drug-using patients in general medicine: qualitative approach. Psychotropic drugs and dependence: users profiles and behaviour patterns.