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In 2006 the French health authorities are setting up a strategy for the widespread dissemination of early detection and short-term interventions (RPIB in French) on alcohol to general practitioners.
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).
The results of the sixth national report on the TREND scheme: subject-based operations 2000-2004 and principal observations 2004.
Comparison of the development of cigarette sales in France in the border and non-border zones.
Exploiting the 2002-2003 ESCAPAD survey in metropolitan France and French overseas departments.
For ten years the OFDT has been publishing an updated report on drugs and drug addictions in France based upon data scientifically validated.
This report tries to bring about some facts to answer three basic questions: how many people use drugs in France, as regards a single experience or a more regular one? Which users are in trouble? Which sanitary, social and legal damages are caused by these uses?
This summary highlights the results from a survey carried out in 2003 through a questionnaire set up by the OFDT, and covering 157 prisons.
The 5th annual report of the TREND scheme (Recent Trends and New Drugs) within the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) was put on line in 2004.
The 2003 ESCAPAD survey stands for the fourth edition of this investigation carried out among teenagers attending their JAPD (Journée d'appel de préparation à la Défense; Roll Call Day).
The ESCAPAD survey, set up in 2000 by the OFDT with the logistical support of the Central bureau for the National Service (DCSN), contributes, every year, to reporting the trends in the use of psychoactive products among young French people.
This issue of Tendances includes four articles. How many opiate users are there on high dosage buprenorphine (HDB)? Impact of substitution treatments: assessment of the last ten years. HDB misuse. Non-substitutive uses of high dosage buprenorphine in France.
Although an essential indicator of public health, mortality due to illicit drugs is not well documented in France.
This issue presents the first results of the French part of the ESPAD 2003 survey (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) and concerns the use of psychoactive substances by young 12-18 year-old middle school and secondary school pupils.
This issue offers, for the period July 2002 to the end of September 2003, an update on the observations made by the socio-health network.
This report presents a study carried out by he national road safety organisation (INRETS) with the support of OFDT.
Set up in 1999, as a part of the implementation of the three-years plan for the fight against drugs and to prevent dependence, SINTES (the national poison/substance identification system) has made up for the lack of data on synthetic drugs consumed in France.
This issue presents, in a summarised form, the results of the fourth year of operation of the TREND scheme (recent trends and new drugs) of the French Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) in 2002.
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.
Since 2000, once a year, the ESCAPAD survey has questioned all the adolescents who attend their Journée d’appel de préparation à la défense [call-up and preparation for defence day] (JAPD), on the Wednesday and Saturday of a given week in metropolitan France and across all the sessions from April to June in the overseas departments.
