Detecting the diverted use of psychoactive drugs by adolescents and young adults: A pilot study.

Purpose: The increasing trend of diversion of nonprescription drugs (NPDs) by adolescents or young adults is worrying. We implemented this pilot study before a national investigation to identify requests for suspected recreational use of psychoactive drugs made by young subjects to community pharmacies.

Methods: Thirty-eight French community pharmacies were asked to complete questionnaire (with age, gender of subjects; name, form, quantity of drugs) for each suspect request formulated by subjects under 26.