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Preventing opioid overdose deaths with take-home naloxone

This publication examines the case for distributing naloxone, an emergency medication, to people who inject opioids such as heroin and to others who might witness an opioid overdose. Through its capacity to...

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Party Panel: developing theory- and evidence-based health promotion in nightlife settings

This paper describes the development and results of a web survey, named the Party Panel, that addresses emerging risks in nightlife settings. The survey does so by gathering the information that prevention...

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Quantitative and qualitative assessments of data quality within the European Web Survey on Drugs

This paper assesses data quality in the first two rounds of the European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD). Data quality has various dimensions, such as accuracy, consistency, validity and completeness, but can...

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European Web Survey on Drugs: an overview of the project

This paper presents an overview of the European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD), a project which began in 2016 with the aim of developing a system for collecting novel data from people...

Combining web surveys and general population surveys to improve data on people who use drugs in France: reflections on recruitment strategies and the generalisability of results

This paper looks at the implementation and recruitment strategies of the 2016 European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD) in France. It also explores the possibility of generalising the EWSD results by using...

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Results and challenges of running the Web Survey on Drugs in Luxembourg: a major contribution to understanding the drug situation

This paper shows how the second wave of the European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD) led to a better understanding of the drug situation in Luxembourg. Until the EWSD, detailed information on...

The Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium (GCCRC): a transnational online survey of cannabis growers

This paper presents some of the key findings of an innovative online survey of cannabis growers in Europe, Australia and North America. The International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire (ICCQ) present generated important findings...

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...

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...

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