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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.
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 (Emerging Trends and New Drugs) scheme 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.