Prevalence and patterns of drug use

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 organisations require to develop theory- and evidence-based behaviour change interventions....

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 be defined as fitness of the data for the intended use. For the quantitative assessment, the...

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 who use drugs of value to the EMCDDA and its national partners.  This publication is published as part of a collection...

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 a matching procedure that links EWSD respondents with respondents of the 2017 general population...

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 drug situation in Luxembourg was very limited, with only a few surveys, often small-scale, having been...

The European Web Survey on Drugs collected data during March and May 2021 from people who use drugs, are aged 18 or older, and live in the 21 EU and 9 non-EU countries including Ukraine. In this period, the populations in many European and neighbouring countries were experiencing COVID-19-related...