Drug demand reduction: global evidence for local actions
EMCDDA, Lisbon, July 2012
Publication type:
Drugs in focus
Summary:
This policy briefing considers the development of evidence-based drug demand reduction interventions. Following a definition of key terms used in the evidence-based drug demand reduction arena, the briefing then presents the main challenges involved in transferring scientific knowledge into practical applications, with a particular emphasis on 'best practice'.
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Bulgarian (bg) Spanish (es) Czech (cs) Danish (da) German (de) Estonian (et) Greek (el) English (en) French (fr) Gaelic (ga) Italian (it) Latvian (lv) Lithuanian (lt) Hungarian (hu) Maltese (mt) Dutch (nl) Polish (pl) Portuguese (pt) Romanian (ro) Slovakian (sk) Slovene (sl) Finnish (fi) Swedish (sv) Turkish (tr) Norwegian (no)Table of contents
- Key issues at a glance
- Definitions
- Understanding best practice
- Guidelines and standards: popular instruments to promote best practice
- Accessing and using scientific evidence
- Learning from each other — minimum quality standards for Europe
- Implementing evidence through guidelines, standards and other tools
- Next steps: identifying gaps and considering new issues
- Conclusions and policy considerations
- Key sources
- Web information
Pages:
4Price:
freeISBN/ISSN:
1681-5157
