Following the final evaluation of its very first National Drug Strategy and Action Plans for the period 2004–2008, Cyprus adopted a new National Drug Strategy 2009–2012. The new strategy is based on four areas of intervention (prevention, treatment and social reintegration, harm reduction, supply reduction) and includes more than a hundred specific actions to be implemented over the four-year period. Three ‘strategic tools’ (coordination and cooperation; legislative framework; documentation, evaluation, research and monitoring) are also part of the strategy and detailed in the document. As an example, the strategy considers an interim and a final evaluation as important tools.
