Publications database

Captagon is reported to be a commonly used stimulant in the Middle East. In addition, some recent media reports have linked this drug to perpetrators of terrorist acts in Europe or terrorist...

Knowledge of the extent and patterns of drug use in the general population, and their changes over time, is essential to understanding the drug phenomenon in Europe and to monitoring progress towards...

This report presents the most recent and comprehensive data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old school students in Europe. Based on the responses from over 90 000 girls and boys, the...

Assessing illicit drugs in wastewater: advances in wastewater-based drug epidemiology reviews a new approach to estimating drug use in populations, based on the detection and quantification of drugs and their metabolic products...

After the launch of the 2011 ESPAD report, a second impact survey (similar to the first one from 2003) was conducted in 2012 to explore whether interest in, use of and impact...

This is a summary of the 2011 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) which aims to collect comparable data on substance use among 15–16 year-old European students in...

Trends in injecting drug use in Europe is the title of the latest EMCDDA Selected issue publication. This volume brings together data from a wide variety of sources as it describes Europe’s...

This is a summary of the 2007 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) which aims to collect comparable data on substance use among 15–16 year-old European students in...

Prevalence of problem drug use (PDU) is one of five key indicators used by the EMCDDA to provide more comparable, scientifically based estimates of the prevalence of more severe patterns of drug...