Netstof.dk is the biggest drug prevention website in Denmark.
Netstof.dk has been running for four years, and the site has been a great success. Over 50,000 visitors annually (more than 1% of the Danish population) show that The National Board of Health was right when they chose to support the website. However in six month the support from The National Board of Health expires and if netstof.dk shall continue, it requires that the municipalities in Denmark start funding the operation through paid membership. The next year will tell whether such a model is durable.
The target group of netstof.dk is young people between 15 and 25 years who are at risk of developing drug misuse, or who wish to gain knowledge and answers to questions about drugs and the lifestyle that goes with it.

The first European conference on addictive behaviours and dependencies will be held in Lisbon on 23. – 25. September 2015. This conference will provide a unique networking opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policy experts across countries and discipline to discuss latest findings on the prevention, treatment and control of addiction.

It is organized by the Portuguese General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD), the journal Addiction, the EMCDDA and the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE). For more details: www.lisbonaddiction.eu

For the first time we have figures from the IMA (Inter Mutualist Agency) about how many young people enter in the emergency services after the abuse of alcohol. There was accurately recorded based on a blood test. 45 young people each week end their weekend in a hospital.

Regarding our national alcohol policy, young people in general need to be informed and sensitized about alcohol. But sensitization is not enough! A comprehensive alcohol policy means early intervention (FreD), supervision (TAKE CARE), regulation and control. This range of measures were all contained in the alcohol plan that a few months ago, unfortunately, was not adopted by the Federal Government.

It was the alcohol lobby that won the debat.

No structural financement for early interventions and stepped care.

No political strength to change the limit age for alcohol consume (16/18y in Belgium) and

still alcohol for sale in filling stations at the highway – 24h a day!

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(Carlo Baeten, CAD Limburg)

The next network conference of euro net takes place in Münster / Germany on 10. June 2015. It follows the final conference of “Click for Support”. Main topics will be the results of Click for Support and how to deal with them as well as next steps.

Olivera Stanojević Jerković is the new euro net member for Slovenia. She followes Dr. Igor Krampac, who retired recently.
Olivera Stanojević Jerković represents the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), a public institute with 400 employees. NIPH is the central institution, which provides the majority of public health activities in Slovenia and implements research and training in this field.

A group of experts in the field of addiction prevention developed a memorandum “evidence-based addiction prevention” (Memorandum Evidenzbasierung in der Suchtprävention – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. Köln (2014)). Two euro net members were part of this expert group (Austria, Germany). You can download the document in German version.

The next network conference of euro net takes place in Athens on 3. December 2014. Main topics will be the network elections, our new website and euro nets working plan 2015.