Healthy Nightlife Toolbox Project

 

The aim of this international project is to reduce harms caused by alcohol and illegal drugs in the nightlife. To achieve this goal it offers a webpage (handbook and database) which gives information about best intervention programmes and relevant data aiming to reduce drug use in the nightlife.

Handbook will be available for all professionals in the EU countries. The portal will give opportunity also for communication between professionals and laymen and for information about the most recent events (e.g. electronic newsletter).

General objectives of the project are:

1) to give information in wider range about harm reduction related knowledge

2) to identify and to make available the best prevention and harm reduction programmes related to the drug use in the nightlife

3) to help professional communication intent experience and knowledge sharing.

In the project supported by EU ( Executive Agency for Health and Consumers , former Public Health Executive Agency - PHEA) 5 countries are involved ( United Kingdom , Belgium , Netherlands , Spain , Hungary ). Project manager is the Netherlands ( Trimboos Instituut ), the other organizations involved are the following: Liverpool John Moores University (Liverpool), Vereniging voor Alcohol-en andere Drugproblemen (Brussels), Instituto y Red Europea para el Estudio de los Factores de Riesgo en la Infancia y Adolescencia (Palma de Mallorca) and the Institute for Social Policy and Labour – National Institute for Drug Prevention (Budapest).

The National Institute for Drug Prevention have been taking an active part in international meetings of the project since 2008. Our main task is to introduce, disseminate and test the handbook and database in Hungary.

 

Website of the project : www.hnt-info.eu

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