National Action Plan on Information System in Addictions 2024-2026
The National Action Plan on Information System in Addictions 2024-2026 was discussed by the Advisory Committee on Data Collection in Addictions on 12 February 2024 and approved by the Council of Government for the Addiction Policy Coordination on 29 February 2024.
The Information System in Addictions (ISA) is a comprehensive system for monitoring the situation in the field of substance use and behavioural addictions in the Czech Republic. Previously, the system was referred to as the Drug Information System (DIS), as it had historically focused solely on the area of addictive substances and, above all, illicit drugs. Since 2019, when the National Strategy for Prevention and Reduction of Harm Related to Addictive Behaviour 2019-2027 (National Strategy 2019-2027) explicitly integrated all addiction topics, i.e. alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, psychoactive medicines, gambling and digital addictions, the monitoring area has also expanded.
The monitoring is an indispensable component of the National Strategy 2019-2027 as well as the follow-up three-year action plans for implementation of the strategy. The current Action Plan on Addiction Policy 2023-2025, approved by the Government of the Czech Republic on 5 April 2023 by resolution no. 230, also highlights the need to ensure systematic and continuous monitoring of the situation across the full spectrum of addictions, i.e. the need to monitor the extent of substance use and other forms of risk behaviour in the population, including its health and social impacts.
The National Action Plan of the Information System in Addictions (NAPISA) is formulated as a tool to plan and frame ISA evaluations, succeeding the National Action Plans of the Drug Information System (NAPDIS) over past periods.
It is co-ordinated and guaranteed by the National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction (NMC), established by government resolution no. 643 of 19 June 2002 in the Secretariat of the Council of the Government for Drug Policy Coordination (renamed by resolution no. 412 of the Government of the Czech Republic of 18 May 2022 to the Council of the Government for Addiction Policy Coordination), which is an organisational part of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic and its activities are laid down in the statute of the Government Council.
The National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addiction is the Czech national partner of the European Union's decentralised drugs monitoring agency, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), based in Lisbon, within the meaning of Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1920/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006, and Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1322 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2023 on the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA).
For bibliographic citation/
NATIONAL MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND ADDICTION, 2024. National Action Plan on Information System in Addictions 2024-2026. Prague: Office of the Government of the Czech Republic.
ISBN 978-80-7440-347-7 (online, PDF)
