Publications

This issue of Tendances presents the results of the INPES 2014 Health Barometer.

Since 2007, OFDT has been publishing Drugs, Key Data, an overall perspective digest with the most recent and detailed facts and figures. 

Results of the 4th national survey among users seen in harm reduction facilities (CAARUD).

This issue of Tendances focuses on the key results of the fourteenth annual TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) and the scheme's seven sites.

Precursor trafficking draws little attention as efforts are focused on seizures of finished products listed as narcotics. Yet, this trafficking is a reality that now touches all continents and makes use of all major global trade routes.

Nearly twenty years after they were first launched in France (1995), opioid substitution treatments (OSTs) remain a cornerstone of the country’s harm reduction policy.

The use of morphine sulphate outside of the scope of the therapeutic framework is not a new phenomenon. However, starting in 2000 and for a decade thereafter, such use appeared to be fairly controlled, geographically-contained and volatile over time. Since 2011 or so, there has been a rise in demand that is disparate, but geographically widespread.

This briefing produced by the OFDT's TREND (Emerging trends and new drugs) Unit focuses on ketamine, a veterinary and human anaesthetic. 

Launched in March 2003 by then President Jacques Chirac, the first French Cancer Plan (2003-2007) embodied the government's renewed dedication to addressing this topic.

While electronic cigarette use seems to be rising sharply in France since 2012, data on the prevalence and modalities of electronic cigarette use are still fragmented. 

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.

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.

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. 

The Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories law of July 21, 2009 (the so-called "HPST law") established a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to all minors. 

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). 

 

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. 

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. 
 

Given more intense illegal online gambling and in response to high European demand to open the gambling market to competition, on 12 May 2010 France opened "a controlled online gambling market to competition" in three areas: sports betting, horse race betting and poker. 

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.