Slovenia’s Resolution on the National Programme on Drugs 2004–2009 is a comprehensive strategy focusing on illicit drugs. Its aim is to encourage preventive action in the area of drugs. It includes various programmes for reducing the demand for drugs in order to reduce the number of new drug users among the younger generation, to prevent first contact with drugs and to raise the age of onset. The programme’s objectives are classified by time and content into three groups, and the main priorities of the programme are: to develop the information system in the field of drugs; to increase the share of drug users included in different programmes; to support NGOs; to define standards for financing programmes over several years and for evaluating them; to establish a coordination system in cooperation with faculties and research institutes; to improve programmes in prisons to prevent drug use; and to establish a network of Local Action Groups (LAGs).
During, 2009 an evaluation of the programme was commissioned by the Ministry of Health and the evaluation’s recommendations were to be considered for the next policy document to be adopted in 2010.
