Italy: drug-related information and data
Italy
Our partner in Italy
Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Drug Policy Department
Via dei Laterani, 34
I – 00184 Roma
Tel. +39 0667796350
Fax +39 0667796843
Head of focal point: Mrs Elisabetta Simeoni
Contact person: Mrs Silvia Zanone
By means of a decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 20 June 2008, the Drug Policy Department was set up at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and placed under the functional responsibility of the Prime Ministerial Under-secretary with delegated responsibility for drugs.The work of the structure is to promote, guide and coordinate the Government’s initiatives aimed at combating the spread of drug and alcohol dependency as well as to promote cooperation with the competent public administrations in the sector, associations, therapeutic communities and welcome centres. Within the Department is located the Italian Observatory on drugs and drug addiction, which is responsible for the collection, processing and interpretation of data and information of a statistical-epidemiological, pharmacological-clinical, and psychosocial nature and for documentation on the use, abuse, dealing and trafficking of drugs and psychotropic substances. The Department is also responsible for dealing with EU and international bodies operating in the sector. The Reitox Focal Point is an integral part of the Department’s technical and scientific division.
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Country situation summaries are written with the general reader in mind and provide short, mainly text-based analyses of national drug situations.
Key data sheets provide an at-a-glance statistical view of the drug situation by country and cover areas including prevalence, problem drug use, infectious diseases, deaths, and more.
Country barometers provide a graphical representation of drug use prevalence data for each country, showing its position relative to other countries by population and drug.
What are countries in Europe doing to prevent illicit drug use? 'Prevention profiles' attempts to answer this question using interactive maps and data charts based on expert appraisals.
Legal profiles describe national drug-related legislation in a standardised, comparable format. Topics covered include possession, trafficking, classification, prosecution, prevention, treatment, among others.
This resource provides access to the current national strategies and action plans for each country as well as a brief description of recent and ongoing work in the area.
Each treatment profile provides information on the national context, treatment registries and monitoring systems, treatment demand, availability of treatment services as well as references and resources.
Each overview describes: the national context; references and resources; key responses for preventing and reducing drug-related infectious diseases and; drug-related deaths and drug-related harms in recreational settings.
These data sheets on drug-related public expenditure cover 30 countries and examine how much countries spend on drug-related activities, whether there are specific budgets allocated to drug policy documents, and how drug-related expenditure has evolved over time.
National reports draw an overall picture of the drug phenomenon at national level. The data is an important resource, among others for the compilation of the EMCDDA's Annual report.
National drug related research provides information by country in the following areas: main funding frameworks, research institutions, scientific journals, websites, main studies conducted and articles published.
