European Web Survey on Drugs: an overview of the project

2 / 9 MONITORING DRUG USE IN THE DIGITAL AGE I European Web Survey on Drugs: an overview of the project EWSD – impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patterns of use Information on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 60 % of the sample reported using some form of cannabis people who use drugs, and on the services that support product in the 30 days prior to responding to the survey. [...] Relaxation was the and focused questionnaire was deployed in the second round all the participating countries, the profile of respondents may in 2017-2018 (see the box ‘Using the EWSD to improve the change as the popularity of different social media platforms understanding of NPS use in the EU’). [...] Conclusion Due to the lack of previous sampling frames and the use of targeted advertising, a web survey such as the EWSD This paper has presented an example of the rich data available cannot readily be generalised to the whole population and from the first two rounds of the EWSD. [...] 7 / 9 MONITORING DRUG USE IN THE DIGITAL AGE I European Web Survey on Drugs: an overview of the project Through successive waves of the EWSD, the EMCDDA is EMCDDA (2020), European Web Survey on Drugs (2019): contributing to the broader discussion on the advantages patterns of use – emerging findings from the second round, and limitations of this method of drug data collection. [...] The box ‘Using the qualitative assessments of data quality within the European EWSD to improve the understanding of NPS use in the EU’ was Web Survey on Drugs’, in Monitoring drug use in the digital drafted based on unpublished analysis conducted and kindly age: studies in web surveys, EMCDDA Insights ( .