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Ten years after the emergence of new psychoactive substances (NPS), the available data reveal lower detection rates for new substances, and their use is still somewhat limited in France.
Set up in 2000 by the OFDT in partnership with the National Service Directorate (DSN), the ESCAPAD survey has been focusing on late adolescence, providing information on a crucial period for psychoactive substance use in the general population.
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.
This issue of Tendances presents the main results from the Recent Trends & New Drugs scheme (TREND) for 2006 in addition to the initial observations for 2007, which are currently being analysed by the various sites in the TREND network.
What new psychoactive substances (NPS) are circulating in France? How are they used? Who uses them? What do we know about how dangerous they are? How can they be controlled? This issue of Tendances summarises what we know about these products.
This issue of Tendances presents the main results of the seventh year of operation of the TREND scheme (recent trends and new drugs).
In 2018, two major international surveys Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) and European School Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) were carried out simultaneously for the first time in France, using a unified scientific framework.
The trends presented here are stemming from the TREND scheme (Recent Trend and New Drugs).
Since 1999, the quadrennial ESPAD survey conducted among 16-year-old teenagers attending school in the majority of European countries has included French students and enables comparison of psychoactive substance use, primarily alcohol, tobacco and cannabis.
Public health professionals have been concerned about the growth of ecstasy use among electronic music enthusiasts for some fifteen years.
