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The main objective of the National Focal Point is to collect, to produce, to analyze and to provide valid, reliable and comparable data on drugs and drug addiction in Luxembourg. This includes surveillance and research activities.

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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug addiction – Luxembourg Focal Point
CRP-Santé
1B, rue Thomas Edison, L-1445 Strassen
Tel.: +352 26 970 749
Fax: +352 26 970 717

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The National European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug addiction – Luxembourg Focal Point has been set up in 1994 and implemented within the CRP-Santé in 2000. It operates both at national and international level and is co-financed by the Ministry of Health and the EMCDDA on a contractual basis. Each of the 27 EU Member states (plus Norway and the candidate countries) run a NFP and thus are part of a wider network called REITOX.
National Focal Points are expert centers, constantly developing to meet emerging needs and follow up trends. Common activities of a NFP include coordinating national information networks in order to meet the EMCDDA’s requirements for a core set of data and to edit annual reports on the state of drugs problem at the national level.
For more information please visit the EMCDDA website:
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/index.cfm

At European level:
The National Focal Point (NFP) provides the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) with reliable and comparable data on the drugs phenomenon in Luxembourg.
The following core issues are part of the NFPs contributions to the annual work programme of the EMCDDA:

Prevalence and patterns of use among the general population
Problem drug use
Treatment demand
Drug-related deaths and mortality among drug users
Drug-related infectious diseases
Crime, markets and supply data
Public expenditures dedicated to the fight against drugs
Action on new drugs and emerging trends

At national level:
The priorities of the NFP are the collection and the compilation of any relevant information on drugs and drug addiction. Over the past ten years, the Focal Point has consolidated national and international cooperation networks and allows promoting, initiating and performing research in the field of illicit drug use and its consequences. Surveillance activities rely on a national network and database called RELIS (“Réseau Luxembourgeois d’Information sur les Stupéfiants” – “Luxembourgish Information Network on Drugs”).