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Risk factors in adolescent drug use: evidence from school surveys and application in policy (2007)
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Format :16 x 24 cm. Pages 140.
Synopsis
What are the risk factors in adolescent drug use? Can any reply be found in the school surveys and could this evidence be applied in policy?
It is to these questions that the authors, Richard Muscat, coordinator of the Pompidou Group Research Platform, Thoroddur Bjarnasson, Patrick Peretti-Wattel, sociologists and Francois Beck, a statistician and sociologist, attempt to reply. They first compile the needs of political decision makers and then use the ESPAD (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) survey as a vehicle to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the risk factors for substance use in Iceland, France and Malta. Finally, the use of ESPAD data in science, the media and in public policy is tackled from the French experience.
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Drug treatment demand data - Influence on policy and practice (2006)
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Author: Hamisch Sinclair
Format:16x24 cm. Pages 120
The Pompidou Group has advocated the systematic and routine collection of information on patients entering treatment for problem drug use (treatment demand data) since the mid-1980s. Two decades later, the question now being asked is whether or not this data has been used as evidence in the development of policies and practices. In this publication, authors Hamish Sinclair, Carlo Bertorello, Michela Rial and Dusan Nolimal, all members of the Pompidou Group research platform, attempt to answer this question. Three case studies describe how treatment demand data has been used in the development of drug policies and services in Ireland, Italy and Slovenia. One strong message coming out of this report is the need for more information on the outcome of treatment. Policy makers clearly need more information on patients at the end of their treatment, including information on further treatment and its effectiveness.
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Road Traffic and Psychoactive Substances
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(2004) by Pompidou Group. Format A4. paper, 403 pages.
The ill effects of alcohol on driving are well known, and the foundations of national policies in this regard are quite sound. But there is still considerable uncertainty about the impact of illegal drugs - consumed alone or together with alcohol or medicine - on the ability to drive. Approaches sometimes place emphasis on road safety aspects, and sometimes on drug policies. The Pompidou Group, the Council of Europe body responsible for addressing drug problems and drug addiction, set out at a seminar in April 1999 to take stock of knowledge and experience on the subject.
The participants - researchers, practitioners and officials from twenty-eight countries together with European Union specialists - exchanged information and views on the prevalence of the phenomenon, existing legal provisions and practices, and prevention and rehabilitation measures.
This book contains the seminar's main reports, presentations and proposals, which are a very
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