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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.
This eight-page document provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
Until now, most of our available knowledge on the NPS (new/novel psychoactive substance) phenomenon originated from traditional information systems on drugs and drug addiction (data on seizures and treatment demands, monitoring in a recreational setting, etc.).
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.
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".
Two major surveys, conducted every 4 years for the past 25 years in the adolescent population, allow for an international comparison of drug use.
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).
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.
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.
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.