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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.
For eight years now, in partnership with the Direction du service national (DSN, National Service Department), the OFDT has carried out a national statistical survey among 17-year-old teenagers: ESCAPAD.
The TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) established by the OFDT in 1999 endeavours to detect emerging phenomena and trends in illegal drug use, including trends in substances, supply, routes of administration and user profiles.
Assessment of developments in use and access to care, marked by the health crisis linked to Covid-19.
The aim of this document is to illustrate the different aspects of the situation of cannabis in France (consumption, market, risks and consequences, public policy, etc.).
The OFDT has published Tendances No. 151 on the reasons behind the diverted use of nitrous oxide understood through user experiences.
On 8 February 2011 in the Courneuve, a Paris suburb in the Seine-Saint Denis department, approximately 700 cannabis plants were discovered in a clandestine indoor plantation by the investigators of the OCRIEST (Central office on illegal immigration and employment) and the OCRTIS (Central office for the repression of drug-related offences).
These last years, synthetic drug use has been presented as a new phenomenon, whose consequences are impossible to foresee.
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.
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.