National Health Information Center (NCZI) in Bratislava co-operates with European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) - through mediation of Slovak Republic Government Office – it’s National Monitoring Center for Drugs collecting and processing data in field of Drug Addiction - Treatment Demand Indicator (TDI).
Treatment Demand Indicator is one of five key epidemiological indicators, defined by EMCDDA to monitor the drug situation in Europe.
Report of drug user treatment ZS (MZ SR 4-12) offers the information on drug users, their age, social conditions, education, living and labor status, on abused psychoactive substances, their route of administration, nationality of treated users, their permanent address, and also basic information on this special treatment and health care providers.
The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is one of the European Union's decentralized agencies. Founded in 1993, inaugurated in Lisbon in 1995, the EMCDDA is the hub of drug-related information in the European Union. It provides the EU and its Member States with a factual overview of European drug problems and a common information framework to support the drugs debate, to monitor drug abuse responses and drug legislation. EMCDDA it is the central source of comprehensive information on drugs and drug addiction in Europe. Its main goal is improvement of the comparability of drug information in the EU. To achieve this, the EMCDDA coordinates and relies on a network of some 30 national monitoring centers (Reitox network) to gather and analyze country data according to common data-collection standards and tools. The results of this national monitoring process are fed to the Lisbon center for analysis and are ultimately released in the Annual report on the state of the drugs problem in Europe — one of its many outputs. National representative of this specialized agency is National Monitoring Center for Drugs at Slovak Republic Government Office, monitoring the situation in field of drug abuse at national level, working also as one of 30 REITOX monitoring centers.
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