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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.
Since 2000, once a year, the ESCAPAD survey has questioned all the adolescents who attend their Journée d’appel de préparation à la défense [call-up and preparation for defence day] (JAPD), on the Wednesday and Saturday of a given week in metropolitan France and across all the sessions from April to June in the overseas departments.
For the second time since 1999, the EROPP general population survey provides an opportunity to review the perceptions and opinions of the French population on the drugs and public actions that affect them.
