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The support centres for the reduction of drug-related harms (CAARUDs) represent a central aspect of the policy on harm reduction measures in France.
In around ten years, the Internet has totally transformed the access to and relationship with information on a global scale.
This briefing produced by the OFDT's TREND (Emerging trends and new drugs) Unit focuses on ketamine, a veterinary and human anaesthetic.
This summary presents the levels of use of the various psychoactive substances (licit and illicit) and recent trends observed in France as shown by the latest representative surveys of the adult general population.
Captagon, in the overwhelming majority of cases, aside from the classic "fakes", is now simply another "street name" for amphetamine or speed.
This document describes a method making it possible to generate a new estimate of the number of regular users of opioids, cocaine or amphetamines experiencing major health or social problems due to their drug use.
The 11th year for the TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Dugs) helped analyse new trends and the most striking phenomena in drug use throughout France.
This issue of Tendances presents the results of the INPES 2014 Health Barometer.
There are many surveys and studies on drug use in adolescents or pupils in secondary schools, as drug use likely to continue into adulthood begins in adolescence.
An analysis of the data from the 2005 Health Barometer, relating to psychoactive substance use practices among the adult population.
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.
Since 1999, the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND) scheme of the OFDT has been monitoring emerging phenomena and developments in the field of drugs.
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.
This report provides an overview of the supply, uses, and the social and health consequences of the use of tobacco in France in 2022. The data are compared with those for the period 2017-2022, in order to cover the entire period covered by the National Tobacco Control Program from 2018 to 2022.
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.).
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).
The OFDT has published Tendances No. 151 on the reasons behind the diverted use of nitrous oxide understood through user experiences.
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.
