Greece’s National Strategy on Drugs 2006–2012 was adopted in 2006 and it was later complemented with a new National Action Plan on Drugs 2008–2012. The Greek drug strategy is comprehensive and balanced, focusing on illicit drugs and alcohol and covering the same pillars as in the EU drug strategy: coordination, demand reduction, supply reduction, international cooperation, training, research and evaluation.
The action plan has five axes (prevention; treatment; social reintegration; Research, training, monitoring and documentation; Cross sectional cooperation and social participation) and aims at ensuring the right to treatment and the gradual elimination of waiting lists; facilitating access to prevention and information services; securing additional funds for prevention policy; reducing the demand for drugs; countering social stigma and mobilising the civil society; developing cooperation with the employers in view of the drug users’ social reintegration; and transforming Greece into a regional centre of dependence-related innovation and knowledge.
