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Final EMCDDA annual accounts for the financial year 2021

These accounts have been drawn up and signed off by the Accounting Officer on 23 May 2022 and approved by the Director on 24 May 2022. The opinion of the Management Board...

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Mapping prevention systems in the European Neighbourhood Policy area: a baseline for future monitoring and responses (EU4MD briefing)

Between March and May 2021, the EU4Monitoring Drugs (EU4MD) project supported the mapping of national prevention systems in European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) area countries. This briefing describes the rationale and methodology of...

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A foresight toolkit for the drugs field

This toolkit aims to support the EMCDDA’s stakeholders, other actors and researchers in the drugs field to implement their own foresight exercise in the form of an introductory trend-based workshop. It describes...

ALAMA-nightlife survey:designing a survey to explore drug use trajectories in the European nightlife scene

Given the lack of contemporary longitudinal data that acknowledges recent market developments, there is an urgent need to develop and validate methods to investigate the relationship between drug use and engagement with...

Comparing two approaches for estimating cannabis consumption: raking and regression

This chapter explores two methods of bringing together the complementary strengths of general population surveys (GPS) and web surveys to develop improved estimates of overall quantities of drugs consumed — namely, raking...

Complexity and differentiation of the MDMA retail market: insights from the European Web Survey on Drugs

This paper focuses on exploring the characteristics of MDMA users in the European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD), studying intensity of use and patterns of buying behaviours, with specific attention given to...

Monitoring drug use in the digital age: studies in web surveys (Insights 26)

This collection of papers (Insights 26) aims to demonstrate the significant role that web surveys can play in drug data collection. Contributions from a diverse range of experts, who have conducted web...

Sources of cannabis acquisition by country and frequency of use in the European web survey on drugs

This paper analyses the data collected in the European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD) on the sources of supply for herbal cannabis and cannabis resin and their relationship to frequency of use...

The potential for using web surveys to investigate drug sales through cryptomarkets on the darknet

This paper considers two different ways in which web surveys might be used to provide insights concerning those people who purchase drugs on cryptomarkets. First, data from the second wave of the...

Using the Global Drug Survey for harm reduction

The data from the Global Drug Survey (GDS) contains invaluable information that can answer key and novel questions related to the epidemiology of psychoactive substance use as well as inform the development...