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The 2003 ESCAPAD Survey stands for the fourth edition of this investigation carried out among teenagers attending their JAPD (Journée d'appel de preparation à la Défense; Roll Call Day).
The ESCAPAD survey, set up in 2000 by the OFDT with the logistical support of the Direction Centrale du Service National [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.
Although an essential indicator of public health, mortality due to illicit drugs is not well documented in France
This paper 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.
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.
"Trends" presents, in a summarised form, the results of the fourth year of operation of the TREND facility (recent trends and new drugs) of the OFDT (French Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction) 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.