From Drug Trips to Rehabilitation Chain

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Based on a research in school health care, it was evident that the attitudes of school children towards alcohol and drugs had become more tolerant and drugs had become available more easily. Th e staff of social and health care faced a new professional challenge, and there was a requirement on the municipal and regional level to create a system of services and a model or early intervention, where each specialist phase would know its responsibilities so that there would be no gaps left in the system. Th is project was a part-project in a joint prevention project against drugs in the Interreg regions in Finland. Th e participating projects had their own, complementary targets, and they benefi ted from each others’ experiences, results and cooperation. Th e purpose of this project was to support the creation of cooperation networks and operational models for authorities and others in the fi eld in Kainuu, North Karelia and Upper Savo, to reduce and prevent the damages caused by drugs. Th e aim was to create both a vertical and horizontal entity of operators from administrative and fi eld authorities and personnel, which would enable tackling problems as early as possible, avoiding overlapping and sharpening cooperation with a multi-occupational approach. In the Republic of Karelia, the authorities responsible for alcohol and drug issues participated in cooperation in the regions of Kalevala, Kostomuksha and Segezha.

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