Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

attitudes and behaviour, and the information we have until now is not enough to predictthe direction of the change. We still do not know how harm minimisation –an approachvery effective in the field of treatment- is going to affect the risk perception of non usersand, consequently, their behaviour. That is why we suggest until we will have furtherresearch results that the harm reductions campaigns should be cautious and take intoaccount non consumers needs.Finally there is another result of the research that indicates the need for other sort ofapproaches. Practically in all cities more than half the users have thought about givingup ecstasy, up to 76.9% in the case of the C group in Nice. It is the users in Utrecht(42%) who seem to have less interest in giving it up although a far from negligiblepercentage would like to do so. What these users seem to be needing are campaignswhich help them to give up, an aspect which is never recognised in the more usualapproaches which are centred, most of all, on reduction of the risks.220