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Launch of EMCDDA 'Best Practice Portal'
22 May 2008. “Best Practice Portal” of the EMCDDA - website was launched. It is an amelioration of the existing EDDRA database (Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action). It is designed to meet the needs of professionals, policy-makers and researchers, offering them a range of tools and standards to improve the quality of interventions and highlight examples of evaluated practice across Europe.
Also available are links to further information sources and a glossary of best-practice terms to guide the user through the portal. The portal is divided into four sections:
· Evidence of efficacy (published reviews);
· Tools for evaluating practices (how to evaluate demand-reduction activities);
· Standards and guidelines for the implementation of practices; and
· EDDRA database
The database was adapted to the new quality criteria. It shows examples of evaluated practices which are real-life solutions to problems related to illicit drugs and polydruguse.
The portal responds to the current EU drugs action plan (2005-2008) which calls for the “effective dissemination of evaluated best practises”.