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- Published: 26 June 2011
Drug Prevention as Social Policy: Could Swedish present be Italian future ?
That was the subject taken up by ECAD represenatative in Italy, Dr. Fabio Bernabei (left, picture) at a conference organised by AVAP, Voluntary Association Against Drugs Pesaro, an NGO established in the 1994 in Pesaro, Italy.
Over 200 participants working with drug prevention and public attitude towards illegal drugs as well as parents and other interested people attended the conference in Pesaro, many travelled from Ascoli Piceno, Urbino, Ancona and Macerata.
Swedish drug policy is perceived as sound and comprehensive, Dr. Fabio Bernabei told ECAD after discussions were over.
AVAP is the most active NGO in the Marche region. AVAP voluntaries get in touch with young drug addicts in order to help them, and their families, to regain a normal, and drug free, lifestyle.
More than 600 boys and girls has entered in one of the therapeutic communities working in close connection with AVAP: San Patrignano, Promozione Umana and Papa Giovanni XXIII.
On the prevention side AVAP arrange meetings, conferences and seminars to disseminate information and to "sensibilize" the public opinion on the “drug problem”.
That was the subject taken up by ECAD represenatative in Italy, Dr. Fabio Bernabei (left, picture) at a conference organised by AVAP, Voluntary Association Against Drugs Pesaro, an NGO established in the 1994 in Pesaro, Italy.
Over 200 participants working with drug prevention and public attitude towards illegal drugs as well as parents and other interested people attended the conference in Pesaro, many travelled from Ascoli Piceno, Urbino, Ancona and Macerata.
Swedish drug policy is perceived as sound and comprehensive, Dr. Fabio Bernabei told ECAD after discussions were over.
AVAP is the most active NGO in the Marche region. AVAP voluntaries get in touch with young drug addicts in order to help them, and their families, to regain a normal, and drug free, lifestyle.
More than 600 boys and girls has entered in one of the therapeutic communities working in close connection with AVAP: San Patrignano, Promozione Umana and Papa Giovanni XXIII.
On the prevention side AVAP arrange meetings, conferences and seminars to disseminate information and to "sensibilize" the public opinion on the “drug problem”.