Since 1993, Amsterdam Antenna has collected qualitative and quantitative data in order to document and analyse trends in substance use among adolescents and young adults in the city. Our panel study traces the latest developments by conducting individual, semi-annual interviews with a panel of avid nightlifers and professionals from various nightlife scenes. The focus is on trendsetters who try out new types of music, events, nightspots and drugs, or create new variations on older themes. They also lead the way as drugs or styles go out of vogue. The panel study also focuses on neighbourhood and problem youth. It reports trends, signs and rumours from all these groups, but provides no exact figures.

Our annual survey, in comparison, delivers quantitative data about substance use in specific groups: school-going adolescents, young clients of youth services, cannabis coffee shop customers, pub goers and clubbers.

Altogether, the information reported in the various components of Antenna yields a diversified picture of developments and trends in Amsterdam’s world of recreational substances.

 An overview of Antenna publications can be found on the  Dutch section of this website.