Flash Eurobarometer 401 (Young People and Drugs)

Attitude towards drugs.<br>Topics: Preferred contact for information about illicit drugs and drug use in general; information sources for information about the effects and risks of drug use of illicit drugs; consumption of new psychoactive substances (‘legal highs’) that imitate the effects of illicit drugs, in the last year; purchase of new substances by a friend, from a specialised shop, from the Internet or from a drug dealer; circumstances of use (alone, with friends, during a party or an event or during normal daily activities); information sources for information about the effects and risks of the use of new substances; assessment of the risk to a person’s health using cannabis, ecstasy, alcohol, cocaine, and new substances that imitate the effects of illicit drugs, once or twice and regularly; most effective ways for public authorities to reduce drugs problems (information and prevention campaigns, treatment and rehabilitation of drug users, tough measures against drug dealers and traffickers, as well as drug users, legalize drugs, reduction of poverty and unemployment, more leisure activities for young people); demand for (continued) banning or a legal regulation of the following substances (cannabis, tobacco, ecstasy, heroin, alcohol, cocaine); appropriate way to handle new psychoactive substances (introduce regulation, ban them only if they pose a risk to health, ban them under any circumstance, do nothing); possibility to obtain selected substances within 24 hours (cannabis, alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy, tobacco, heroin, new psychoactive substances); respondent has used cannabis.

Demography: age; sex; highest education level; occupation and professional position of the main wage earner in the household (only full time students); occupation and professional position of the respondent; region; type of community; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone in the household; number of persons aged 15 years and older in the household (household size).