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Author: Csete, Joanne

Title: A Balancing Act: Policymaking on Illicit Drugs in the Czech Republic

Summary: In the early post-Soviet period, Czech authorities, unlike their counterparts in some former Eastern Bloc countries, turned away from repressive drug policies and developed approaches to illicit drugs that balanced new freedoms with state authority. The end of Soviet rule meant that drug markets and the use of a wide range of new drugs attained a magnitude and visibility not previously known to Czech society. From an early stage, some pioneering health professionals with expertise in drug addiction saw that the new drug situation would require greatly expanded services for drug users and collaboration between civil society and government to achieve this expansion. They were able to influence the new government and steer it toward drug policy that would define drug use as a multisectoral problem, not an issue for policing alone. The report A Balancing Act: Policymaking on Illicit Drugs in the Czech Republic traces the development of drug policy in the Czech Republic from the post-Soviet period to the present day. The report examines the impact of the Czech Republic’s evidence based approach to drug policy, compares the country’s path on drug policy to that of its neighbour Slovakia and discusses challenges to maintaining this approach in the future.

Details: New York: Open Society Foundations, 2012. 54p.

Source: Lessons for Drug Policy Series: Internet Resource: Accessed August 1, 2012 at http://www.soros.org/sites/default/files/A_Balancing_Act-03-14-2012.pdf

Year: 2012

Country: Czech Republic

URL: http://www.soros.org/sites/default/files/A_Balancing_Act-03-14-2012.pdf

Shelf Number: 125821

Keywords:
Drug Abuse Treatment (Czech Republic)
Drug Policy (Czech Republic)
Drug Policy (Slovakia)
Illicit Drugs (Czech Republic)
Substance Abuse (Czech Republic)