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1.2. Policy Implementation, legal framework and prosecution

All of them were adopted in the Act on Succession - (Official gazette RS 9/92).

Illicit drugs may be released into circulation exclusively on the basis of a licence issued by the minister.

The act is being implemented by regulations to be prepared by the Ministry of Health and other responsible ministries.

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  The Regulation on Terms and Proceedings to Issue Permissions for the Export and Import of Drugs (Official gazette 8/02).
  

The Regulation on Evidences and Reports on Drug Production and Trade and Terms of Data Reporting is being prepared by the Ministry of Health and Degree on bookkeeping and health inspection.

In this act Inter ministerial Committee is defined and The Governmental Office for Drugs.

In addition the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for

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  monitor the implementation of the provisions of conventions issued by international bodies and international organisations;
  
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  submit to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia the proposed National
  

Programme and measures for the implementation of the National Programme;

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  propose measures to reduce illicit drug supply;
  
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  ensure international cooperation.
  

The Information System has its legal basis in this law.

Monitoring of the consumption of illicit drugs is carried out in the form of the collection, arrangement, processing and providing of information on illicit drugs, consumers of illicit drugs and consequences of the use of illicit drugs. The purpose is to ensure a national information network, interdepartmentally coordinated collection of data and an informational exchange 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 competent minister shall set out the method of monitoring in the working areas of individual ministries in more detail.

Monitoring of 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 available area of illicit drugs.
According to this act two degrees were adopted:

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  Degree on establishing and performing of Coordination of Centres for the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Addiction (Official gazette 43/00)
  
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  Degree on establishing and performing Supervision Commission (Official gazette 43/00)
  

Degrees are:

Decision on the list of precursors (Official gazette 94/2000)

Decision on the quantities of precursors which may be exported without permission (Official gazette 94/2000)

Decision on the list of precursors and states for applying special measures in exports (Official gazette 94/2000)

b) Prosecution policy, priorities and objectives in relation to drug addicts, occasional users, drug related crime

c) Any other important project of law or other initiative with political relevance to drug related issues

Since 1999 the Governmental office for Drugs are preparing the National Drug Strategy and National Action Plan among different sectors. They will be launched to the parliament procedure in 2002.
All degrees on the basis of law on drugs are in a phase of preparation.

1.3. Developments in public attitudes and debates

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  National level
  

On the basis of the Acton prevention of drug consumption and treatment of drug addicts (Official gazette 98/99) Governmental Office for Drugs was established.

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  Regional level
  

Several drug related activities are organised at the regional (geographical) level:

Several networks have been created in the past few years in Slovenia to create common policy and uniform approach and exchange experiences. Among those we should mention The Network of LAG who at their second meeting in October 1997 adopted several conclusions concerning LAG preventive activities. Now meetings are performed regularly once a year.

The activities of non-governmental organisations may cover schooling and educational activities, preventive activities, harm reduction programmes, programmes of establishing and maintaining abstinence, social rehabilitation and reintegration and other forms of dealing with consumers of illicit drugs and their relatives pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 2 of this Act and the National Programme referred to in Article 3 of this Act.

The activities under the preceding paragraph may be carried out by non-governmental organisations within resident communities, non-residential programmes and as a part of other forms of work coordinated with the National Programme.

Residential communities shall be deemed to be therapeutic communities which carry out professional therapeutic and rehabilitation programmes, communes via a programme which is mainly based on mutual help, and special-care homes via a programme which is mainly based on life and work in groups.

Non-residential programmes are day centres carrying out programmes of organised help in which consumers of illicit drugs and the people closest to them are included alongside their everyday life. Centres carry out programmes for the reduction of harmful consequences of the use of illicit drugs and their programmes are carried out in the form of fieldwork.

Programmes for harm reduction cover distribution of intravenous injection needles, advice on reducing the harm caused by the use of illicit drugs and other programmes intended for harm reduction.

Programmes in the form of fieldwork shall be programmes of dissemination of informational material, dissemination of medical material and other programmes carried out in the form of fieldwork.
Article 14
The non-governmental organisations referred to in the preceding paragraph may voluntarily associate in the Association of Non-Governmental Organisations.

The activities of the Association of Non-Governmental Organisations shall be the following:

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  coordination of joint activities;
  
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  mutual linking between member organisations;
  
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  coordination of activities and programmes;
  
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  representation of the Association of Non-Governmental Organisations before public and national bodies, local community bodies and holders of public authorisations;
  
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  promotion of the development of non-governmental forms of work among consumers of illicit drugs;
  
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  acquisition of donations for non-governmental forms of work with consumers of illicit drugs;
  
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  provision of advice for governmental and other services and organisations;
  
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  promotion of professional development and education for members of the organisations.
  

List of all of them is included in Annex 6.

a) Funding (figures) at national level in following fields:

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  Law enforcement (criminal system, police forces, etc.)
  

Measures aimed at fighting drugs are funded by the budgets of the responsible Ministries (the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finances).

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  Prevention and treatments
  

Methadone maintenance in CPTDAs is available to all drug users through compulsory health insurance. Detoxification and treatment in psychiatric hospitals are available to all drug users through additional health insurance.

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  Epidemiology, research
  

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  Evaluation, quality, training
  

PART 2

2. Prevalence, Patterns and Developments in Drug Use

2.1. Main developments and emerging trends

In this part of the report the main developments in drug use, including prevalence and patterns are given. Some main activities and some epidemiological information are discussed.