Cities For Youth   Reykjavik, March 19-20, 2014


Substance use amongst Icelandic adolescents is lowest in Europe and Reykjavík City shared this success story on the 19-20th of March at a two-days international conference "Cities for Youth". Many ECAD cities and their policy makers, researchers and prevention practitioners demonstrated how evidence based substance use prevention method actually works in changing adolescent attitudes towards alcohol, smoking and drugs.

 ECAD had since 2006, with the introduction of the drug prevention programme "Youth in Europe", promoted the Icelandic model over 20 ECAD member cities across several European countries.

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Youth in Europe in Bucharest: a success

 Bucharest joined Youth in Europe project in the beginning of the first phase and have demonstrated genuine committment to implement the Icelandic methodology.  As a result of this project cooperation, a pilot study was presented in Reykjavik this March by Adrian Sarbu, sharing the findings from Bucharest.

"The substance use and social factors in Bucharest 2012-2013" is a research based on on data from "Youth in Europe" Drug Prevention Programme in the Capital of Romania showing to all of us a successful story available now to every city.

 The report focuses on the findings for Bucharest: comparison of the main variables for other cities partaking in the study, showing results on levels of tobacco-, alcohol- and substance use and hence reporting on key social beneficial factors, such as parental, peer and organized recreational influences.

 Rich of tables and figures, the book introduces a Preface by Professor and MP Ben-Oni Ardelean.


E.A. Sarbu, O. I. Bunaciu, D. Maris (Editors), The substance use and social factors in Bucharest 2012-2013, Risoprint Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2014, pp. 104.

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