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Since 1999, the Emerging Trends and New Drugs (TREND) scheme of the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been monitoring recent and emerging phenomena in the field of drug use.
The support centres for the reduction of drug-related harms (CAARUDs) represent a central aspect of the policy on harm reduction measures in France.
Since 1999, the quadrennial ESPAD survey conducted among 16-year-old teenagers attending school in the majority of European countries has included French students and enables comparison of psychoactive substance use, primarily alcohol, tobacco and cannabis.
2015 was marked by record cocaine seizures - close on 11 tonnes - on French territory.
This issue of Tendances focuses on the description of the characteristics of CSAPA clients in 2014, and the changes since 2007.
An online survey among users of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) was conducted in France, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic in 2014, in the context of the I-TREND project, supported by the European Commission.
The laws governing cannabis use, tolerated in some countries yet totally banned in others, vary significantly from one European Union country to another.
Since 2005, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been responsible for evaluating the youth addiction outpatient clinics (CJC) scheme, an initiative launched in 2004 by the French Ministry of Health, in conjunction with the French Interministerial Mission for Combating Drugs and Addictive Behaviours (MILDECA).
The review on tobacco and tobacco smoking indicators in France brings together recent figures which vary in nature and origin. The annual 2015 review on tobacco has been drawn up from the monthly reports and presents them as a concise overview.
The phenomena which emerge from this fifteenth year of observation are a continuation of the previous period, with problems related to social instability among users and the resulting tensions still in the spotlight.