Young people and addictions: an overview

Over the past twenty years, numerous undertakings by the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) have focused on juvenile behaviours.

Adolescents qui marchent
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A collective OFDT publication entitled "Jeunes et addictions" has just been published in French. 

This study of substance use throughout adolescence and early adulthood is essential as this is when certain addictive behaviours begin and can sometimes become established, based on initiation and experiences. 

This collective publication provides an analysis of psychoactive substance use and its impact according to a continuum covering nearly 15 years of life: from 11 to 25 years, i.e. approximately 12 million individuals in France.

Publication type
Tendances
No.
114
Publication date
Language
Français
Author(s)
BECK
François
ADÈS
Julie-Émilie
LERMENIER-JEANNET
Aurélie
CADET-TAÏROU
Agnès
LE NÉZET
Olivier
MUTATAYI
Carine
NGANTCHA
Marcus
OBRADOVIC
Ivana
Edited by
OFDT
Number of pages
4
Products & addictions
Alcohol
Cannabis
Tobacco
Themes
Users
Specific population(s)
Adolescents
Women/Men
Territories
France
Dispositif d'enquête et d'observation
Epidemiological surveys

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