Naslov
FENIQS-EU: New Perspectives on Quality Assurance in Prevention, Harm Reduction, Treatment, and Recovery from Addictions

Autori
Vanderplasschen, Wouter ; Jerkovic, Dijana ; Miovsky, Michal

Kolaboracija
Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Izvornik
Adiktologie (1213-3841) 1 (2023); 5-7

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, uvodnik, ostalo

Ključne riječi
Quality Assurance ; Prevention ; Harm Reduction ; Treatment ; Recovery

Sažetak
The FENIQS-EU project was designed to Further Enhance the Implementation of Quality Standards in drug prevention, treatment, and harm reduction across Europe, with more services, organisations, and countries applying QS in daily practice. The project focused in the first place on the actual application of QS and factors stimulating implementation. Several of the findings and outputs of the FENIQS- EU project are presented in this special issue. The first paper (Jerkovic et al., 2023) provides a brief overview of the structure and methodology of the project and some key findings based on the first 18 months of the project. Next, we present examples of ‘inspiring practice’ from eight different countries, covering the implementation of quality standards in prevention, treatment, and harm reduction. We looked for different models and original concepts and selected interesting prevention practices from Croatia (Andreić, 2023) and France (Mutatayi, 2023). Colleagues from Cyprus integrated prevention and treatment standards in one system (Kyprianou et al., 2023), which is also of interest. The Spanish Best Practice Portal was selected as a highly inspirational example of a complex and comprehensive approach including all the areas of drug demand reduction (Monteagudo-Piqueras et al., 2023). When it comes to harm reduction, we present an example of QS from the Czech Republic (Miovský et al., 2023), based on the first project output from the Prague team, which was published in the Journal of Substance Use one year ago and focused on quality in school prevention (Miovský et al., 2022). Another interesting example of quality standards covering treatment and harm reduction was implemented in Flanders, Belgium (De Pourcq et al., 2023). For treatment, we selected an example from Lithuania (Subata, 2023) and one from Ireland that specifically focused on a drug-free therapeutic community model (Coughlan et al., 2023).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijske znanosti

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