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Drug-checking services provide individuals who use drugs with information on the chemical content of their drugs as well as advice and, sometimes, counselling or brief interventions. Service priorities vary and may include...

This miniguide is part of the Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide 2021. It will be published in early 2022. For an overview of the miniguides available, please...

The EMCDDA Prevention toolkit brings together useful tools and resources for anyone involved in shaping decisions, opinions and policies in Europe in the science-based prevention of substance use, including the European Prevention...

This miniguide is part of the Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide 2021. It will be published in early 2022. For an overview of the miniguides available, please...

Risk assessment is the second step in the three-step legal framework designed to allow the European Union (EU) to rapidly detect, assess, and respond to health and social threats caused by new...

This publication presents the data and findings of the risk assessment on 1-(3-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)propan-1-one (3-chloromethcathinone, 3-CMC), carried out by the extended Scientific Committee of the EMCDDA on 19 November 2021. On the basis...

This publication presents the data and findings of the risk assessment on 2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one (3-methylmethcathinone, 3-MMC), carried out by the extended Scientific Committee of the EMCDDA on 18 November 2021. On the basis...

The findings of the largest European project to date in the emerging science of wastewater analysis are taken up in this ‘Perspective on drugs’. The project in question analysed wastewater in around...

Drug consumption rooms, sometimes known as supervised injecting facilities, are fixed or mobile spaces in which people who inject drugs are provided with sterile injection equipment and can use illicit drugs under...

This brochure provides an overview of the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC). EUPC is a short training curriculum in science-based prevention for decision-, opinion-, or policy-makers (DOPs) at local, regional or national levels...