The use of psychoactive products in rock culture party environments

The OFDT therefore commissioned a survey on the use of psychoactive products in the rock music environment in order to supplement the observations on the techno party environments included in the TREND (Tendances récentes et nouvelles drogues [Recent trends and new drugs]) device.

The research took place from March to December 2001. Forty-four musical events of different durations were observed (representing around 273 hours of observation): 32 concerts (of around 3 hours), 3 evening parties (of around 9 hours), 9 mini-festivals (of around 6 hours, with a minimum of three bands) and 3 festivals for their entire duration (over three days). We took into account the different types of halls, according to their size and the organisation of the concert (official or alternative), including, among other things, the surveillance during the event (presence or otherwise of security officers, searching upon entry, etc.). We also wanted to observe the different music scenes, in order to have as global as possible a view of the drug use. Nevertheless, this survey remains exploratory since the sample of events cannot claim to be exhaustive.