Best practice portal

Prevention
- Available evidence
- Prevention standards and guidelines
Treatment
- Available evidence
- Treatment standards and guidelines
Harm reduction
- Available evidence
- Harm reduction standards and guidelines
Social reintegration
- Available evidence
General best practice tools and resources

Best practice portal

The EMCDDA's Best practice portal is a resource for professionals, policymakers and researchers in the areas of drug-related prevention, treatment, harm reduction and social reintegration. The portal concentrates on illicit drugs and polydrug use and has a clear European focus. More information >>

Available modules

The content in the portal is structured by thematic modules. Each module below provides the current scientific evidence base for the corresponding type of intervention.

Best practice resources

News and recent updates

November 2012: Collaboration with the EU project DECIDE — acknowledgement of our meeting in the DEDICE monthly updates, we are now part of their advisory group and we will participate at the DECIDE meeting in February 2013.
October 2012: New evidence module on social reintegration interventions for drug users »
May 2012: Evidence updates on prevention interventions for alcohol misuse for school-students, families and communities »

Collaborations

We are a source of evidence for the WHO Health Evidence Network (HEN)

About the EMCDDA

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is the reference point on drugs and drug addiction information in Europe. Inaugurated in Lisbon in 1995, it is one of the EU’s decentralised agencies. Read more >>