Germany's 'Action Plan on Drugs and Addiction' was adopted in June 2003 and replaced its 'Plan to combat drugs' developed in 1990. The current action plan has a time frame of 5–10 years. It is comprehensive and covers four pillars: prevention, counselling and treatment; survival aid and harm reduction; repression; and supply reduction. It focuses on all psychotropic substances and on some special groups (children of addicted parents, high-risk groups, car drivers, consumers of different drugs) which have been identified and should be targeted specifically.
The Federal Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs presented a plan to develop a new national strategy on drugs and addiction policy in 2011.
