1. Establishment of NGO info points for NPS sample collection within regional EWS in the framework of I-SEE project Ada Hočevar Grom, National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
Lisbon Addictions 2017, October

2. Slovene story - part I
I declare no conflict of interest.

3. Setting the scene

4. Some facts about Slovenia
Size: km²
Inhabitants:  
Neighbouring states: Austria, Italy, Hungary, Croatia
Length of coastline: 46.6 km
Ageing of population
High suicide rate

5. And some more…
There are over 10,000 caves in Slovenia. The best known, Postojna, runs for around 20km.
There is a vineyard or winery for every 70 people. The world’s oldest vine, at 400 years old, is in Maribor.
There are over 400 Brown Bears in Slovenia and a whole lot of forest for them to hide in. In fact 60% of Slovenia is forested

6. Administrative division
Slovenia is subdivided into 212 municipalities (eleven of which have the status of urban municipalities).
The municipalities are the only bodies of local autonomy in Slovenia.

7. Public health in Slovenia
NIPH represent a central institution in the field of public health
with its 500 employees and numerous partners from various sectors and non-governmental institutions
strives to fulfil its mission – contribute to better health and welfare of Slovenian population.

8. NIPH - Regional Units

9. Some of our projects

10. Health in the Municipality
Presents a variety of health indicators at municipal level. The health indicators were selected by considering data availability and the importance of the issue the indicator measures for actions and policies at municipal level.

11. Health in the Municipality
Relevant information on key health issues important for local stakeholders, media and other professional and non-professional groups. Helping to support evidence-based decisions and actions to improve the health of the population at the local level.

14. Community approach
We are developing community-based approach to health promotion and reduction of health inequalities that were carried out in three pilot environments under the project "To improve health and reducing health inequalities - Together for Health“, which was supported by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

15. Back to the main topic

16. I-SEE, Project for strengthening information exchange between Italy and South East Europe neighbouring countries on New Psychoactive Substances

17. I-SEE project Workstream 1
Building up network with law enforcement, NGOs and health sector. National Institute of Public Health Ministry of interior – Police Association DrogArt Budget: ,00 EUR

18. Our goals in the I-SEE project
to build up regional networks involving law enforcement, NGO‘s and public health professionals
to detect NPS in an early phase of their appearance and in individual regions
to enable anonymous collection of NPS samples in regions
to speed up the procedure of anonymous collection of NPS samples and their analysis
to speed up the response in terms of informing the users and take adequate measures to tackle the problem

19. What was done in
NGO´s
Regional PH Unit
8 regional coordinators of EWS were appointed
Coordination of regional EWS network
8 regional early warning systems started to operate
Police
4 trainings:
115 professionals
National EWS network

20. Regional EWS networks & info points for collecting samples

21. Alerts and reports on paper
6 alerts on dangerous NPS
10 monthly reports of regional EWS networks

22. Development of national NPS base
Users
NIPH with regional units
Ministries
Police
Laboratories
NGO´s ED
Health centres
Centers for prevention and treatment of illicit drugs
Each partner can access only certain module/level

23. Development of national NPS base
Entering data about substances, seizures, intoxications, sample analysis
Information, reports and alerts
Statistics

24. CONCLUSIONS

25. Manage to implement the results of the EU project into practice through the existing system and with integrated approach.
Manage to strengthen EWS system on NPS in Slovenia.
Contribute to reduce inequalities
Establish a good network with NGO´s.

26. To be continued…