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The 11th year for the TREND system (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 (see box below), 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.