This Flash Eurobarometer.s objective was to study young EU citizens. attitudes and perceptions about the issues of drugs, such as:

•  past and potential information sources about illicit drug use and the related risks and effects
•  perceived health risks associated with using various licit and illicit substances (i.e. heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, alcohol and tobacco)
•  opinions about the effectiveness of alternative drug policies
•  attitudes towards banning or regulating illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco
•  perceptions about the availability of specific drugs.

This survey.s fieldwork was carried out from the 14th . 18th May 2008. Over 12,000 randomly selected young people (15-24 years-of-age) were interviewed across the 27 EU Member States. The survey was carried out by telephone, with web-based computer assisted telephone interviewing (WebCATI). To correct for sampling disparities, a post-stratification weighting of the results was implemented, based on socio-demographic variables.