France: Sharp Decline in Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use

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The use of drugs and alcohol has fallen drastically among 16-year-olds in Europe over the last 10 years. This is the teaching of a European survey carried out every four years in 37 countries on 16-year-olds presented this Thursday, 11 September by the Observatoire Français des Drugs et des Addictions (OFDT), which points out that France is now below the EU average and records one of the most significant declines in the Old Continent.

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Drug use in France is now lower than on average elsewhere in Europe, after one of the continent's most marked falls in the last ten years.

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A health considered to be more important, less opportunity or "denormalized" substances... According to several specialists, the decline in the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis in France among 16-year-olds is "multifactorial".

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Between 2014 and 2024, the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis by 16-year-olds declined drastically in France, according to the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

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France is "now below the European average for all indicators of drug, tobacco and alcohol use" by 16-year-olds, according to the European survey on addictive substance use.

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The French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction shows a significant decrease in the use of addictive substances among young people, placing France below the European average.