The consumption of hard-drugs by the under thirties and its evolution during the last decade.

By : Benjamin Thouvignon
L3 AES, DULASP avancé
ABSTRACT

This proposal sets out to examine the evolution of hard-drugs consumption among the under thirties and especially to see which place those drugs take in their lives. Based on a survey of more than 800 people, this research established that the number of hard-drugs addicts increased by 6% between 2000 and 2009 and that occasional users of these kind of drugs rose from 8% to 13% in the same period. Parallel those increases, our study pointed out that more and more larger part of hard-drugs abusers succeeded in stopping taking drugs(our research tried to explain why and also how they get to it). It was shown that there is a real lack of information concerning hard-drugs issues: indeed, the families of hard-drugs users often do not know how to react positively to this phenomenon. Eventually, the aim of this proposal was to ask to the French government to settle the problem of hard-drugs dependence and for that solutions were proposed in order to improve information about hard-drugs and to answer to the helpless of hit families.

INTRODUCTION
These last few years, the problem of drug addiction has become more and more media friendly: the dependence on medicines, the use of soft-drugs and especially cannabis to calm the pain of seriously ill patients or the use and abuse of cannabis by our children lead scientists to study the effects of these kind of substances on human body in order to find treatment of addictions.
Among others, some of the existing studies concerned hard-drugs and allowed to develop substitute drugs helping addicted people to detoxify themselves. According to any medical dictionary, an hard-drugs is a narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addictions. It concerns heroin, cocaine and other drugs such as ecstasy or LSD. In 2008, according to the French authorities,