Since 1997 the OFDT has set up a perennial device based upon national general population surveys for observing drug-related uses, behaviours, and opinions. Taking part in the ESPAD 1999 (European School Survey on Alcohol and Other Drugs) came within that scope. The survey was carried out by the INSERM team “Santé de l’adolescent” (“Teenager’s health”; M. Choquet and S. Ledoux, who have been par...

adolescence is transitional stage of physical and mental human development occuring between childhood and adult life. social interactions and environmental factors together are important predictors of adolescent cannabis use. this study aimed to examine the relationship between the social determinants and adolescents behavior with cannabis consumption.a cross sectional study as part of the euro...

BACKGROUND At the drug scene some major shifts were observed, more and more reports highlighted the abuse of prescription medication. Despite the importance of controlled medication in treatment child and adolescent disorders, this increase may be a factor which influence misuse and nonmedical use of prescribed drugs among adolescents. SUBJECT AND METHODS Croatian data from ESPAD survey in 20...

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BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to explore the prevalence of illicit drug use in a group of Polish adolescents with type 1 diabetes (DM1) in comparison with a national cohort of their healthy peers. METHODS Two hundred and nine adolescents with DM1, aged 15-18 years, were studied in 2013 with an anonymous questionnaire prepared for the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other D...

Erratum Following publication of this study design article [1], it has come to our attention that some terminology was inconsistently used in the article. The GOOD life trial uses a definition of binge drinking of “5 or more drinks on one occasion” in accordance with the ESPAD study [2]. Both in the abstract and in the methods section, when describing measures of alcohol use or outcomes, any fo...

Despite social media use being one of the most popular activities among adolescents, prevalence estimates among teenage samples of social media (problematic) use are lacking in the field. The present study surveyed a nationally representative Hungarian sample comprising 5,961 adolescents as part of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). Using the Bergen Social Me...

BACKGROUND/AIMS We assessed to what extent adolescents use alcohol and cannabis simultaneously and expanded previous research by estimating the proportion of all events of cannabis use that had occurred in relation to drinking. How the prevalence of this form of polysubstance use co-varied with the overall level of alcohol and cannabis use in different countries was also examined. METHOD We a...