Publications database

Displaying 11 - 15 of 15

Recreational drug use — a key EU challenge

In nightlife settings, most people who consume psychoactive substances do so with the intention of 'having fun'. Reducing the risks run by the growing numbers of mainstream young people in the EU...

Drug prevention in EU schools

The Council of the European Union invites Member States (5099/1/02 Cordrogue 4 Rev. 1) 'to incorporate health promotion/drug-prevention programmes at all schools (...)' and 'to promote the development of such programmes and...

Measuring prevalence and incidence of drug use

Reducing the prevalence of drug use through prevention is a key feature of many policies at local, national and international levels. The first target of the European Union drugs strategy (2000–04) is...

Drug users and the law in the EU

Drug laws in the European Union (EU) seek continuously to strike a balance between punishment and treatment. The three United Nations (UN) conventions on drugs, limit drug use exclusively to medical or...

Key role of substitution in drug treatment

Substitution treatment for problem drug users is now widespread in the European Union (EU). Trials, mostly with methadone, started in the late-1960s, mainly in northern Europe. By the mid-1990s, substitution had been...