Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

INCIDENCE OF ECSTASY USE (%)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTNever 48,9 50,5 55,2 49,9 50,7< 12 times a year 18,0 06,9 11,3 13,1 24,7Once a month 07,2 05,7 02,4 04,2 04,7Less than once a week 07,6 01,9 03,3 10,7 08,5Once a week 04,7 04,4 02,7 02,7 02,2Several times a week 01,1 04,1 03,9 02,7 00,3Everyday 00,0 01,6 02,1 00,6Ex–consumers 12,6 24,9 19,3 16,1 09,0Approximately, half of the sample in every country are not ecstasy users, as aconsequence of the sample definition. In relation to the distribution of the rest of thefrequencies, as is the case of every table of this study, the data depends on samplingmatters and on the particular characteristics of drug use in each country. These are themost significant differences among the cities:–the high frequency of ex-consumers in the Modena sample (24,9%) in comparisonwith Utrecht (9%) on the other end.–in the most pathological levels of drug use (several times per week and everyday),the lower frequencies are found in Coimbra and Utrecht. As a consequence of thatthese two towns have the higher frequencies observed in the less pathological level(