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Exploiting the 2002-2003 ESCAPAD survey in metropolitan France and French overseas departments.
The status of CAARUD (Support Centres for the Reduction of Drug-related Harms) has been accessible since 2006 to structures (e.g., "drop-in", needle exchange programmes, street teams and mediation teams) that carry out drug-related harm reduction missions.
The use of some drugs at certain doses can cause immediate or imminent death: this is what we call drug overdose death, which tends to affect relatively young people.
Results of the 4th national survey among users seen in harm reduction facilities (CAARUD).
The French population perceptions and opinions concerning drugs and drug addiction have been studied through a general population survey carried out in April 1999 (the EROPP survey).
The city of Paris seems to be particularly affected by illegal drugs, judging from health statistics (treatment requests, syringe exchange programmes, etc.) and police statistics (stopping and questioning people for drug dealing or drug taking).
For the ninth time since the implementation of the ESCAPAD survey, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) and the Youth and National Service Directorate of the Ministry of the Armed Forces interviewed a sample of young people aged 17 years, taking part in the National Defence and Citizenship Day (JDC).
The twelfth edition of the TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) took place in 2010.
At the end of the 2000s, the OFDT's TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs), which focuses on following intense drug-using populations, revealed trends on access to freebase cocaine - including crack cocaine - and its use.
This briefing is structured in three parts. It first presents the international legislative framework established by the United Nations and the European Union and laid down in three treaties: the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (amended by the 1972 protocol), the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and…