France: drug-related information and data
France
Our partner in France
3, Avenue du Stade de France
F-93218 Saint Denis la Plaine Cedex
Tel. +33 141627716
Fax +33 141627700
Head of focal point: Ms Maud Pousset
Since 1996, the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Observatoire Français des Drogues et des Toxicomanies, OFDT) has been entrusted as an independent body with the coordination of all drug monitoring activities in France, and has acted as the national focal point. In addition, the OFDT is responsible for the evaluation of drug policies in France. Since 1999, its areas of activity have included licit drugs (i.e. alcohol, tobacco, medicines) in addition to illicit drugs. The OFDT is funded by the Mission Interministérielle de Lutte Contre la Drogue et la Toxicomanie (MILDT), an interdepartmental body composed of representatives of different ministries, which is responsible for the overall coordination of activities against drugs and drug addiction in France.E-mail addresses have been inserted in a way discouraging spam. Please replace [a] by @ before actually using any of the e-mail addresses.
Country situation summaries are written with the general reader in mind and provide short, mainly text-based analyses of national drug situations.
Key data sheets provide an at-a-glance statistical view of the drug situation by country and cover areas including prevalence, problem drug use, infectious diseases, deaths, and more.
Country barometers provide a graphical representation of drug use prevalence data for each country, showing its position relative to other countries by population and drug.
What are countries in Europe doing to prevent illicit drug use? 'Prevention profiles' attempts to answer this question using interactive maps and data charts based on expert appraisals.
Legal profiles describe national drug-related legislation in a standardised, comparable format. Topics covered include possession, trafficking, classification, prosecution, prevention, treatment, among others.
This resource provides access to the current national strategies and action plans for each country as well as a brief description of recent and ongoing work in the area.
Each treatment profile provides information on the national context, treatment registries and monitoring systems, treatment demand, availability of treatment services as well as references and resources.
Each overview describes: the national context; references and resources; key responses for preventing and reducing drug-related infectious diseases and; drug-related deaths and drug-related harms in recreational settings.
These data sheets on drug-related public expenditure cover 30 countries and examine how much countries spend on drug-related activities, whether there are specific budgets allocated to drug policy documents, and how drug-related expenditure has evolved over time.
National reports draw an overall picture of the drug phenomenon at national level. The data is an important resource, among others for the compilation of the EMCDDA's Annual report.
National drug related research provides information by country in the following areas: main funding frameworks, research institutions, scientific journals, websites, main studies conducted and articles published.
