About EDDRA
The Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action (EDDRA), which provides details on a wide range of evaluated prevention, treatment, harm reduction interventions as well as interventions within the criminal justice system is primarily designed to help professionals and policy-makers. Currently EDDRA contains more than 400 entries. Fonte, the EMCDDA’s tool for collecting, validating and storing drug-related data, runs in the background, collecting and validating EDDRA entries.
In addition, EDDRA helps to:
- Generate evidence of effectiveness of drug demand reduction projects based on self evaluation of implemented projects in the field;
- Compare results from self-evaluations with the best current research evidence.
You have free access to the system and can consult, search and retrieve information form the information system.
In 2007, EDDRA was reviewed and reclassified by the EMCDDA and its national EDDRA managers in a move to improve the system’s content and layout. In a bid to better identify best practice in evaluation, projects are structured according to a 'logic model' and classified according to their level of quality. This reclassification took place in the context of the EU drugs action plan (2005–2008) which calls for the ‘effective dissemination of evaluated best practices’ and the EMCDDA’s new mission statement which prioritises the provision of such information.
