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Since the French "delinquency prevention act" of 5 March 2007, which mainly aimed to "increase the efficacy of the legal system's handling of drug addiction", people arrested for narcotics possession and use can now be ordered by the courts to undergo an "awareness course on the dangers of drug and alcohol use".
In France, the levels of legal and illegal drug use in adolescence, as well as recent trends in such use, have been assessed over the last fifteen years or so through a group of representative surveys of the general population.
In March 2011, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction surveyed 27 402 metropolitan 17-year-olds on their use of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. Including this seventh edition of the ESCAPAD health and drug use survey, there is now over a decade’s worth of information available on drug use.
The twelfth edition of the TREND scheme (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) took place in 2010.
In France, there have been several recent public reports (Trucy, 2006; INSERM, 2008) on gambling.
Results of the 2010 Health Barometer data on the use of psychoactive substances by adults.
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).
Building and analysing a demand function to measure the volume of cross-border cigarette purchases and subsequent tax evasion.
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 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.
Forty years after the passing of the original 31 December 1970 law prohibiting drug use, this issue of Tendances analyses the trends in arrests for narcotics use and the subsequent sentences handed down by the French legal system.
The third edition (1999, 2002, 2008) of the Survey on Representations, Opinions, and Perceptions Regarding Psychoactive Drugs (EROPP) provided information about representations, opinions and perceptions French people have with regard to psychoactive substances and helped review changes in the French population's understanding and opinions related to drugs and the main public policies developed…
This eight-page document, produced by the OFDT, provides the most relevant figures for measuring and providing a quick overview of drug-related phenomena.
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.
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.
Up until the last few years in France, the treatment of cocaine users was not considered a priority for health professionals dealing with drug users.
The processing of data from the 2005 "Health Barometer" (Baromètre santé) survey concerning the use of alcohol, tobacco and psychotropic medicines among senior citizens
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 30-page document gives an estimate, between 210 000 and 250 000 problem drug users, based on data from 2006 and different methods.
Initial results of a reimbursement data analysis on more than 4 500 patients in 2006 and 2007.
