Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

a few friends”, which has quite a similar behaviour in the five countries and in bothcategories of C and NC, between a 30% or 40%. That is to say, C have significantlymore friends using drugs than NC.However, if we choose the category “ None of my friends uses ecstasy”, we noticedeep differences. We find percentages of more than the 56% (except Nice with a 35%)among NC, while the percentages found among C range from 0% to 4,7%.OTHER DRUGS USED DURING THE LAST MONTH (in %)*COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHGlob NC C Glob NC C Glob NC C Glob NC C Glob NC CAlcohol 81,7 73,7 900, 90,2 82,9 98,4 87,4 820, 940, 88,6 83,2 93,50 93,2 87,4 99,4Cannabis 50,6 13,6 810, 69,5 42,5 96,0 65,3 48,1 820, 61,7 32,8 83,50 51,6 27,3 72,5LSD 11,4 01,7 19,6 17,3 000, 500, 110, 000, 21,8 18,1 03,6 28,80 02,5 000, 04,2Amphetamine 15,3 03,4 25,4 17,4 000, 510, 110, 02,3 19,7 08,5 01,8 13,80 16,7 01,5 29,2Cocaine 06,6 00,9 11,4 26,7 030, 64,5 20,3 03,5 340, 31,6 08,6 490,0 14,8 02,2 25,1Heroin 01,2 00,9 01,43 05,3 000, 21,2 060, 000, 12,5 020, 01,8 02,10 00,7 00,8 00,7Tobacco 72,7 450, 97,8 71,5 50,4 96,1 80,8 71,5 90,3 75,2 57,3 910,0 70,7 540, 86,5Mushrooms 090, 01,7 15,2 08,1 010, 25,7 09,8 04,6 15,1 02,7 00,9 04,16 14,8 4,4 23,5Others 14,2 07,5 20,3 13,2 04,9 33,3 11,9 060, 18,6 13,8 04,6 21,40 17,9 12,5 22,4* Missings: The percentages on the table refers just to the people who have answered to the questions. In this table,specially in the sample of Modena and Nice, there are a lot of missing that we can not say if they do not want toanswer to the question, or that they are not consuming that particular drug. The problem is specially importantwhen they are a lot of missings. Here follows a reference of the missing of each sample: in Coimbra there are 7missings in the case of Alcohol and a maximum of 25 in the case of amphetamines, being the average of missingsaround 15, all that referred to the global sample; in Modena the minimum is 49 (alcohol) and the maximum is191 (heroin), being the average around 130; in Nice the minimum number of missings is 33 (alcohol) and themaximum is 175 (heroin), being the average around 130; in Palma the minimum is 8 (alcohol) and the maximumis 83 (heroin), being the average number of missings around 60; in Utrecht the minimum number of missing is 4and correspond to the alcohol, and the maximum is 92 (heroin), being the average around 65 missings.GLOBAL SAMPLE ANSWERSThe reading of the global data (the sum of ecstasy consumers and non-consumers)in this table has many limitations, since data suffer a lot of variations when afterwardswe work separately with the NC or the C group.At the sight of the global data, there is no doubt that, during last month, alcohol useprevails (more or less 90%), followed by tobacco (approximately 70%) and cannabis(approximately 60%).Nevertheless, we can not ignore other drug use percentages, as is the case of cocainethat in Palma de Mallorca reaches 31,6% of the total sample who has used it.61