Institute of public health of the republic of slovenia
The Institute of Public Health of Slovenia (IPH)
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The Institute of Public Health of Slovenia (IPH) is, together with 9 regional Public Health Institutes, the most important data gathering centre on drugs in Slovenia. The IPH is collecting treatment demand data since 1991. This year the data collection started in Ljubljana and Koper. The epidemiology experts of IPH and its regional branches meet regularly to impart data comparability at national level and to compare and interpret drug use and misuse trends. The Unit of Mental Health Protection has been responsible for coordination and contact with international organisations until March 2001. This Unit was responsible for national epidemiology and prevention initiatives in the areas of alcohol, drugs, suicides and others. The responsibility for the Pompidou Group treatment demand and multi-city project was also with this Unit. In addition to its responsibility for the national drug monitoring it has also offered support to initiatives at local, regional, national and international levels to help implemented a new epidemiology and prevention knowledge and methods. Later, the CPTDAs became the main source of health data concerning drug use. With non-governmental treatment and harm reduction services they build a network of institutions that gives the opportunity of data collection at national level. The first treatment demand data collection was implemented in June 1996. The existence of Coordination of CPTDAs on national level proved to facilitate the implementation of FTD data collection. At the Phare Information System Local Training Seminar at Bled in September 1996 epidemiologists from Regional Public Health Institutes realised and accepted that FTD data should be in the first place collected, analysed and disseminated directly by the Institute of Public Health at national level. Collection of other drug data such as school and general population survey data should remain in the domain of Regional Public Health Institutes. In the field of drug control, The Ministry of Interior is a source of information on police arrests, quantities of illicit drugs seized, prices of illicit drugs and drug-related deaths; some data are available only for Slovenia and not for Ljubljana. Based on the data on drug-related offences provided by the police and customs officials, the annual report on drug delinquency in Slovenia is drawn. The Ministry of Justice is a source of information on drug misuses in prison population. 2. Legislation According to Prevention of the Use of Illicit Drugs and Dealing with Consumers of Illicit Drugs Act Monitoring the consumption of illicit drugs was defined in Article 15: “Monitoring the consumption of illicit drugs is carried out in the form of collection, arrangement, processing and providing of information on illicit drugs, consumers of illicit drugs and consequences of the use of illicit drugs for the purpose of ensuring a national information network, the inter-departmentally coordinated collection of data and exchange of information on the national and international levels. The activities specified in the preceding paragraph shall be carried out by the competent ministries, public institutions and non-governmental organisations. The method of monitoring in the working areas of individual ministries shall be set out in more detail by the competent minister. Monitoring the consumption of illicit drugs shall be carried out pursuant to the provisions that govern collections of data in the area of health and in accordance with the act that governs the protection of personal data. For the implementation of the activities specified in the first paragraph of this article, the ministry responsible for health shall organise an illicit drug information unit. The information unit referred to in the preceding paragraph shall include all competent ministries, public institutions and non-governmental organisations, along with the collections of data in the area of illicit drugs which they have available.” With the Health Minister Order (no. 5809-2/01, dated March 8, 2001) Informational Unit for Drugs was formally established at the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia. It is considered as a Focal Point and a central unit for drug data collection. 3. Sources of information 3.1. Epidemiology The most important sources for epidemiological drug data are:
Some data are routinely reported by means of health statistics: hospital admissions, viral hepatitis B (but not data on drug related cases), AIDS, causes of death and data on school survey. Reporting system according to the first treatment demand indicator is not completely established yet. Only data from CPTDAs are available. .
Various data on CPTDAs and Centre for Treatment of Drug Addiction are available at the ministry.
Information on police arrests, quantities of illicit drugs seized, prices of illicit drugs and drug related deaths could be drawn from the data.
Social care treatment data are available on drug users.
Data on needle exchange and outreach are available.
Data on ATS and dance drugs.
Data on Conferences, manuals, counselling services… 3.2. Demand reduction Information about demand reduction is primarily available at the Governmental office for Drugs since the president was also DDRP coordinator. The ministries possess information on DDR relevant to their sector. At the regional level information on DDR can be found at the local action teams and in regional Public Health Institutes. In the town of Ljubljana relevant information is gathered at the Drug Prevention Office. 3.3. Documentation centres There is no separate drug documentation centre in Slovenia. The documentation where most of the relevant drug information can be found is INDOK Centre at the Institute of Public Health. A lot of information and publications are available also at the Governmental Office for Drugs, where the drug documentation centre is being established. Slovenia is reporting to several international organisations on regular and occasional basis. UNDCP questioners are completed, reports to international organisations such as Phare and Pompidou Group are prepared. Police is reporting to INTERPOL and EUROPOL. According to international cooperation in specific projects reports are prepared. There is no common report, covering all structures and activities, that could be used as a national report. ANEX 3 List of Abbreviations
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