5 October 1992

Doc. 6694

WRITTEN QUESTION No. 345

by Mr RATHBONE

on European Drugs Prevention Week

Mr RATHBONE (on behalf of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee),

      To ask the Committee of Ministers,

      What is being done to ensure maximum support for European Drugs Prevention Week (16-22 November 1992) from the Council of Europe's Pompidou Group (working in cooperation with CELAD) and from individual Council of Europe member states, involving the European Drugs Monitoring Centre and the international organisations and European agencies supporting its work - bearing in mind the Assembly's Recommendation 1085 (1988) for greater cooperation in the fight against drugs misuse, the conclusions of the First World Ministerial Summit to Reduce Demand for Drugs (1990) and the Assembly's Recommendation 1169 (1991), particularly for greater pan-European co-operation including the creation of a European fund for anti-drug education programmes and better methods of systematic exchange of information on the most effective national and international strategies for better education for health.

      Signed: RATHBONE