In the context of international research and policy, the study of
drug use in the Netherlands is of global interest. The Centre for
Drug Research (CEDRO) at the University of Amsterdam conducted the
first large national drug use survey of the population of the
Netherlands in 1997. The survey was repeated in 2001, and the
results are presented in this volume. In 2001, 18,000 people age 12
years and over were asked about their use of a wide range of drugs,
both licit and illicit. Drugs surveyed were tobacco, alcohol,
hypnotics, sedatives, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy,
hallucinogens, mushrooms, and opiates such as heroin, inhalants,
and performance enhancing drugs. People were asked about past and
recent use, their age of first use, frequency of use, and their
place of acquisition. This volume presents data for the Netherlands
as a whole, but also separately for Amsterdam and Rotterdam and for
designated dense population centers. It also includes use figures
for a large number of age groups. This volume reports both 2001 and
1997 data, thus giving an overview of recent trends in drug use in
the Netherlands. Respondents were offered a choice in how they
wanted the data reported, and this highly innovative approach to
survey methodology gets ample attention here. Like the survey in
1997, the 2001 survey was designed in cooperation with Statistics
Netherlands and funded by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and
Sports in the Netherlands. The report is split in two parts in
order to facilitate its use. Part I focuses on the survey itself:
the methodology, response, representativity, non-response and mode
analysis. Part II presents the outcomes of the survey: the drug use
figures. Licit and Illicit Drug Use in the Netherlands, 2001 is
essestial reading for both policy makers and social workers alike.
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