Government Council for the Coordination of Addiction Policy

The Government Council for the Coordination of Addiction Policy ("Council"), established in accordance with Section 28, Paragraph 3 of Act No. 65/2017 Coll., is a permanent advisory, initiating and coordinating body of the Government of the Czech Republic in the field of integrated drug policy, resp. addiction policy.

Integrated drug policy ("addiction policy") means a policy covering the fields of legal and illegal addictive substances, pathological gambling or overuse of modern technologies, where the measures are defined as a comprehensive and coordinated set of preventive, educational, therapeutic, social, regulatory, control and other measures, including law enforcement measures taken at international, national, regional and local levels.

The Council was originally established in 1993 as National Drug Commission. Details about the historical background were summarized in the booklet Czech Drug Policy and Its Coordination – Evidence-based addiction policy.

The National Strategy to Prevent and Reduce the Harm Associated with Addictive Behaviour, action plans and situation reports in English language are published on the website drogy-info.cz.