Network europei collegati…. "I nostri colleghi"

http://www.erit.org
  154 rue du Vieux Pont de sèvres,
92100 Boulogne, France
T: 0033 141 419801
F: 0033 141 419805
E: erit@erit.org

Organisational structure
  Network Management
President Dr. Luis D. Patricio
Cat das Taipas, Rua das Taipas. 1250 Lisbon, Portugal
T. 00351 I 3474114
F:+ 351 13472348
E: I.patricio@erit.org

Network objectives and services:


Objectives:
 
  • Development of exchanges among professionals (social workers. doctors, psychologists, sociologists...) from the different European countries in order to improve the quality of interventions in the fìeld of drug use/misuse;
  • Promotion of an ethic that considers drug users/misusers as fuII part citizens;
  • Encouragment of clinical, social and political conceptions which give priorlty to the respect of the dignity of the person, their individuai and collective liberties, as well as their access to care;
  • Acknowledgement of institutions and professionals in prevention and care, as active partners on the elaboration and application of a European policy to drug problems;
  • Contribution to the expansion in Europe of research, studies and training in what concerns prevention, help and care to drug userslmisiisers.


Recipients of services:
  European drug workers, members of the national associations participating in ERIT;
European professionals and agencies working in the fìeld of drug use/misuse


Network references:
 

ERIT Newsletter

ERITWebsite (information given above)


Network publications
  "Minima Criteria of the Evaluation of Medical, Psychological.
Socio-Educational Intervention' Mucchi Editore
'The Way Things Are', Mucchi Editore
'Il Nostro Contributo per la Costruzione Dell'Europa Sociale', Mucchi Editore
'The lnstruments' Mucchi Editore
Proceedings of the I ERIT Conference
Proceedings of the II ERIT Conference
Proceedings of the III ERIT Conference

Activities


Completed:
 
  • ERIT Conference , Liège 1993
  • II ERIT Conference, Paris 1996
  • III ERIT Conference, Bologna 1998


Ongoing:
 
  • Several working groups are operating within the ERIT structure.The sublects addressed by these groups relate to ERIT priorities, considering the actual state of the art of European drug use/misuse interventions;
  • Assessment of medical, psychological and socio-educational interventions on drug use/misuse;
  • Quality assesment and quality control on drug intervention, in out-patient and in-patient care (therapeutic communities);
  • European study on professional interventions in harm reduction;
  • Primary prevention for adolescent drug users;
  • Creation of an ERIT section on each national scientific revue;
  • lmprovement of ERIT website.