Scientific area
3.3 Health sciences
Discipline(s)
Substance abuse
Project title
New Psychoactive Substances: transnational project on different user groups, user groups, user characteristics, extent and patterns of use, market dynamics, and best in prevention
Scientific Coordinator's name:
Susana Henriques (local coord. Portugal)
Scientific Coordinator's e-mail:
susana_alexandra_henriques@iscte.pt
Principal R&D Unit:
Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIES-IUL)
Other R&D Units involved in the project:
Bonger Institute, University of Amsterdam (project coord.) CDR, Goethe Universität CIES, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon WiT, Ireland Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest IPN, Warsaw
Project keyword(s)
psychoactive substances, abuse, users, prevention
Short abstract and comments
This transnational project directly addresses priority area ‘New psychoactive substances’, i.e. ‘to support the implementation of EU legislation on new psychoactive substances by monitoring the extent and patterns of use of such substances, and by sharing best practices on prevention’. The proposed project is directly linked to the European Drugs Strategy 2013-2020. The main objectives are: To determine the extent and patterns of NPS use within three different groups Assess characteristics in three different groups of NPS users Collect information about supply Identify market dynamics for NPS Assess perceptions of legal status of NPS Make an inventory of prevention strategies used in the different countries Identify best practices Disseminate and share project results Europe-wide The research will take place in six EU Member States: Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal.
Potential uses/indications
Potential uses/indications
Status
Ongoing
Partner Status: Seeking Partners?
No
Project weblink
http://https://npstransnational.org/portuguese/index.html
Grant number (QREN, FP7, Eureka, etc)
Eurpean Commission (Directorate-general migration and home affairs)
Last edited on
2017-01-30 16:34:30