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Strategies for addiction treatment in
New Psychoactive Substances in Europe
Handle it! is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership funded by the European Union. Within a professional European exchange of good practice between professionals, the project analyzes, connects and develope inpatient and outpatient treatment- and care-approaches and strategies for clients, who are using New Psychoactive Substances (NPS).
NPS are synthetically produced designer drugs. Their psychoactive effect is similar to that of other illegal drugs, but often much stronger, so there is a higher risk for a heavy damage of the individual health (cardiovascular arrest, psychosis, longterm brain damage). However, the manufacturers take meticulous care to ensure that the individual ingredients are not explicitly prohibited – hence the misleading synonym “legal highs”.
Handle it! involves institutions from Croatia, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, Italy and Austria.
Science based
The project “Handle it!” analyzes, connects and develope approaches and strategies in outpatient and inpatient addiction care and treatment services in a European exchange of good practice between professional staff members of seven social organisations from Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Germany.
Network Project
Several week-long Learning-Teaching-Training-Activities allow a transfer of organizational knowledge from the local to the international level. The knowledge will be reflected, creatively stimulated and redirected to the professional staff members of the partner organisations as manageable tools .
Best practice
The methods are expert lectures, topicrelated workshops and working groups, research work, good-practice visits, case studies and case reviews and the development of treatment concepts for example.
Social Media Dokumentation
The project activities are accompanied by a mobile reporting, which allows an easier knowledge transfer to the treatment centers of the project partners and increases significantly the distribution and transparency to the public community, too.
PROJECT NEWS
Presentation of the project to the Regional Secretary of Health and Civil Protection of Madeira
Dr. Pedro Ramos, Regional Secretary of Health and Civil Protection of Madeira, attended our LTTA in Madeira to inform on
LTTA „After-care“ – insights into the working groups
A brief look at the outcomes of our working groups, presentations, and questionnaire evaluations.
What factors are critical in developing effective aftercare strategies for NPS users?
Dr. Thomas Legl from “Therapiesalon im Wald” discusses residential treatment processes in addict aftercare, the differences to be considered with