The Best practice portal is designed to help you find practical and reliable information on what works (and what doesn’t) in the areas of prevention, treatment, harm reduction and social reintegration. It will help you identify tried and tested interventions quickly, allocate resources to what’s effective, and improve interventions applying tools, standards and guidelines.
Contents:
Evidence
Implementation
Below you can find a number of resources aimed at those planning or implementing interventions.
Xchange prevention registry
The Xchange prevention registry is an online registry of evidence-based prevention programmes.
* Please note that EIB is a legacy product and no longer actively updated by the EMCDDA.
Health and social responses miniguides
Each of these policy and practice briefings is designed as a one-stop-shop for anyone planning or delivering health and social responses to drug problems in Europe. Each briefing consists of: a summary of the main issues; the main response options; key implications for policy and practice and links to further resources.
These briefings are summarised versions of information in the publication Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide. Some of the information, particularly regarding data and the EU picture, may no longer be up-to-date.
Types or patterns of substance use
- Cannabis use
- Opioid dependence
- Opioid-related deaths
- Injection-related infectious diseases
- Stimulant use
- New psychoactive substances (NPS)
- Misuse of medicines
- Polydrug use
