3rd multi-city study: drug use trends in European cities in the 1990s.

In the introduction we first sketch the origin of the Multi-city Study and its key objectives. The present report is the third Multi-city Study, covering the trends and developments of 42 cities in Western and Eastern Europe over the period 1991-1998. We continue with a brief explanation of the multi-city reporting system, which is based on annual city reports by members of the Epidemiology Expert Group of the Pompidou Group. The core of these reports is the presentation of indicator data in pre-defined formats, supplemented by a methodological account of the data, a description of characteristics of the city as context for an interpretation of the data, and an assessment of trends and developments. The introduction concludes with an overview of the structure of the third Multi-city Study report

Pompidou Group multi-city study update report 1999-2000: 32nd meeting of experts in epidemiology of drug problems (Strasburg, 27-28 May 2002).

The multi-city Update Report 1999-2000 gives an update of the drugs indicator data presented in the 3rd Multi-city Study of the Pompidou Group, which covered the period 1991-1998. The information is presented as city indicator profiles, and trends per indicator in the same formats as in the 3rd Multi-city Study. The update covers only sixteen of the forty-two cities which participated in the multi-city network during the 1990s