Expansion of knowledge on the segmentation of the drug market (demand side) according to the intensity of use (lifestyles) and of the used substances, creation of a matrix and analysis of different behaviours related to the combination users-substances and estimation of the various populations involved in drug use and dealing. Introduction of new indicators for monitoring actions and policies specific for the various populations.

Expansion of knowledge on the laws in action and dynamics of the market (supply side) to produce new global indicators to evaluate actions and policies of supply reduction.

• 19-04-2012

  To further widen the scope of the European Project “New methodological tools for policy and programme evaluation” (JUST/2010/DPIP/AG/1410), We are looking for data input from Spain and we open an offer to Spanish researchers in order to contribute to analysis of consumption and behavioral characteristics of consumers in Spain and to estimate incidence curves for different sub-populations of drug users in Spain contributing to develop and analyze dynamic models to describe drug consumer careers.
  
  Deadline for application: April 30th 2012
  Address for application: carla.rossi@uniroma2.it

• 01-04-2012

  The survey on Therapeutic Communities and Low Threshold Services is quite completed in Italy and is running in Portugal, Spain, and Czech Republic . To get the questionnaire, now available in English, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, go to the pages of Workstream 1, 3 or 6, after login.

• 11-04-2012

  The results of the project will be presented in a Final Conference to be held in Lisbon next year on February the 7th and the 8th.

  Programme and venue will be communicated later.

• 27-09-2011

  Comparison between Italian and Portoguese legislation; by Elena Ventura (presentation in Workstream 3).