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Update and complete the analysis of drug use, consequences and correlates amongst minorities

This report is a follow-up study to an earlier mapping exercise on minorities and is the final output of a follow-up project to update and complete the analysis of drug use, consequences and correlates amongst minorities, covering all the EU Member States and Norway, was carried out from December...

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Annex to Towards a new EMQ Module – Questions on Availability of Illicit Drugs: Volume II Annex – Initial inventory of surveys including questions on drug availability (2001-2002)

An inventory of population surveys including questions on drug availability was carried out in 2001-2002. A first identification of surveys including this type of questions was possible through the project reports on the Key Indicator Population Surveys. In addition, information requests were sent...

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Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the mid-term evaluation of the EU Action Plan On Drugs (2000-2004)

The EU action plan on drugs 2000–04 called upon the European Commission to undertake a mid-term evaluation in 2002 (the subject of this page) along with a final evaluation in 2004.This was the first time that such an evaluation exercise had been undertaken in the drugs field at EU level.

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Medicinal cannabis and derivatives: a legal analysis of the options, their limitations, and current practice in the EU

This analysis describes and compares the different substances often referred to as "medicinal cannabis" and their methods of administration, as well as the various methods and levels of permission and control under international, EU and national legislation. It also looks at current practice in the...

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Council Decision on PMMA

Council Decision of 28 February 2002 defining PMMA as a new synthetic drug which is to be made subject to control measures and criminal penalties. This decision is based on the EMCDDA risk assessment of PMMA.

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions: Final report: Part 1 - General Overview

This is the final overview report of a framework project which brought together and consolidating existing European networks of experts in prevalence estimation and dynamic modelling of drug use. The overall goal was to stimulate the development of tools to analyse data on drug use, its...

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions Final report: Part 2 – Prevalence of problem drug use at the national level

The basic objective of the project work was to explore and to develop the multivariate indicator method. The method introduced by Person, Retka and Woodward (1977, 1978) and modified by Mariani (1999) estimates drug use by combining several population-standardized indicators directly...

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions Final report: Part 3 – Prevalence of drug use at the local level

The work group was formed to consolidate EMCDDA-funded and other methodological research into estimating the prevalence of drug use at the local level and also to provide advice and scientific support to researchers wishing to apply the methods in their area. New prevalence estimates have been...

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions Final report: Part 4 – Time trends and incidence of problem drug use

In the 1st 12-month period Kaplan Meyer and Cox Regression models were used to estimate the latency time between first drug use and first treatment. The group applied a Back-Calculation Model to estimate the incidence of problem drug use from the observed incidence in treatment, using the latency...

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European Network to Develop Policy Relevant Models and Socio-Economic Analyses of Drug Use, Consequences and Interventions Final report: Part 5 – Pilot project to develop a model of geographic spread of drug misuse in the European Union

The groups work began by considering a computerised model of geographic spread, developed based on the observation that macro spread of drug use may behave similar to infectious diseases (using ‘infection rates’ between cities and towns). At the XV international scientific meeting of the...

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