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Adapted trendspotter methodology February 2021

Infographic: Adapted trendspotter methodology, February 2021

Facility surveys in EU4MD partner countries using EFSQ: data collection, analysis and reporting

During the meeting the EU4MD partner countries are presenting and discussing the data each country has collected using the European Facilitites Structured Questionnaire (EFSQ). The meeting takes place on the 22 April.

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EMCDDA launches 2021 European Web Survey on Drugs to assess patterns of drug use in over 30 countries

Do you use drugs? How many? How often? These are among the questions posed in the latest European Web Survey on Drugs, launched today by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA). Targeted at...

Prevalence and patterns of drug use expert meeting 2021

30.03.2021 to 31.03.2021

The 2021 annual expert meeting on the EMCDDA epidemiological indicator ‘Prevalence and patterns of drug use among the general population’ (often referred to as the 'General population surveys indicator') takes place on-line...

EMCDDA expert meeting

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Video: Why a European Web Survey on Drugs?

In the past, information on patterns of drug use was only collected with General Population Surveys. They give us information that is representative of the population, but they lack detail. With web...

Report: European Syringe Collection and Analysis Enterprise (ESCAPE) – generic protocol

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European Syringe Collection and Analysis Enterprise (ESCAPE) – generic protocol

This protocol documents a new approach that has been developed to monitor substances injected by people who inject drugs through analytically confirmed data at the local level: the analysis of residual content...

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Communicating results of wastewater-based epidemiology applied to illicit drugs: the do’s and don’ts

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with potential for monitoring real-time data on geographical and temporal trends in illicit drug use, which established itself as a useful complement to...

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TDI Methodological information on 30 European countries

Methodological report showing the methods and definitions of TDI (treatment demand indicator) data reported to the EMCDDA in 2014. TDI is one of the EMCDDA's key epidemiological indicators.

ESPAD general assembly 2020

The ESPAD general assembly 2020 takes place 21 Oct, online. ESPAD - the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs, is a collaborative effort of independent research teams in more...

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