Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

♦ which subjects are the most frequently focused (therapeutic, prevention,effects, description of users, etc.).♦ what sort of articles are the most frequent ?, medical ?, sociological ?,psychological ?....♦ are they review articles (papers based on typical internationalbibliography) or original research (results of epidemiological studies, andso on).♦ indicate which of them are the most relevant or interesting for our study.For these articles we should write a longer comment and we wouldappreciate that you send the article to Palma de Mallorca.3.2. Epidemiological studies: We think that the comparison of our study withother existing epidemiological studies, both national and local studies, willgive a higher strength to our research. That’s why we ask you to get as manystudies of this sort as you can. We will appreciate your comments on thisstudies (do you think they are methodologically serious ?, do you think theyrepresent the phenomena of ecstasy in your country ?, do you think whatthey describe is very different of your experience in our study ?, etc.).3.3. Mass media material: We ask you to do a selection of material published inyour country, in order to obtain the social representation transmitted bythem. We remind you that we are not asking for an exhaustive analyse butfor a general vision of the situation of your country. Here are somesuggestions of questions that can be used as a guide :* Ideological position of the author of the article.* Connection between ecstasy and dance music, sex, night and leisureindustry.* Way of dealing with problems associated with ecstasy (in a dramatic way,in a rigorous way,....).* Controversial issues around the legal situation of these drugs.* Descriptions of the scenarios where ecstasy is used.* We wait for other suggestions from you. We think that as much precise wecan be in the previous questions, as much rigorous will be the comparisonbetween countries.3.4. Leaflets, pamphlets, posters, videos, etc. used in prevention campaigns. Weask you to make a brief report of the situation of this subject in your country.Existing material, quality of this material, quantity, extension of thecampaign...Which do you think is the social representation implicit in thiscampaigns. In which questions focus mainly this campaigns, which is youropinion about these materials,...We pretend to have a report of every country on all this subjects written by you. Wewill prepare a report comparing the countries to be discussed with you. Please note that234