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Monitoring the potential for abuse and dependence of psychoactive substances falls within the scope of international conventions on narcotic drugs. At the European level, this monitoring is based on activities controlled by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) for substance abuse in general and by the European Medici...
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Humans have constantly sought to alleviate their existential anxieties, first resorting to substances found in their natural environment, and more recently, with the arrival of modern chemistry, using synthetic substances or medications. The substances used in this way are constantly renewing, warranting health surveillance and particular vigilance...
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Depuis 2005, 215 nouvelles drogues ont été signalées dans l’Union européenne. Ces produits de synthèse, créés pour esquiver la législation sur les stupéfiants, sont des dérivés de médicaments ou drogues existants. Leur disponibilité est sans limite. Les effets recherchés incluent des effets stimulants, entactogènes, hallucinogènes, psychédéliques o...
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The French addictovigilance network (addictovigilance: surveillance of addiction), composed of 13 Addictovigilance Centres, was set up in 1990 in order to achieve reliable surveillance and evaluation of abuse and dependence cases due to psychoactive substances (alcohol and tobacco excepted). The detection of safety signals is one of the roles of th...
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Objectif. Décrire l’impact (prévalence d’utilisation, profils de patients, respect des conditions d’accès) de la méthadone gélule en France. Méthode. Chaque année de l’étude (2008-2012) tous les patients affiliés au régime général en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA), Corse et Rhône-Alpes qui ont eu au moins 2 remboursements de méthadone ent...
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La surveillance du potentiel d’abus et de dépendance des substances psychoactives s’articule à l’échelle européenne sur les activités de l’Observatoire Européen des Drogues et Toxicomanies (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction [EMCDDA]) et de l’Agence Européenne du Médicament (EMA) pour les médicaments commercialisés. Alors que l...
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Abuse of and addiction to medication are a major public health issue which is evolving fast, in particular in countries like France, one of the largest consumers of medication in Europe. As a single source of information is not generally sufficient to measure a phenomenon as difficult to apprehend as medication-related addiction, as can be seen in ...
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L’objectif de cet article est de présenter l’évaluation du potentiel d’abus et de dépendance d’un médicament à partir des différentes sources de données pharmacoépidémiologiques utilisées par le réseau français des Centres d’Évaluation et d’Information sur la Pharmacodépendance-Addictovigilance (CEIP-A), en prenant l’exemple du tramadol. La confron...
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The use of high dose baclofen for alcohol-dependence emerged in France from 2008 based on empirical findings, and is still off-label. However, due to the rapid increase in this prescribing practice, the French health authorities have decided to frame it using an extraordinary regulatory measure named "temporary recommendation for use" (TRU). Baclof...
