Drugs and Addiction Commission
On December 8, 1999, a Drugs and Addiction Commission at the Federal Ministry of Health with recognized persons from science and research was constituted in Berlin . The commission should develop recommendations for the government to improve drug prevention. The report was presented on June 4, 2002.
composition
- Alexa Franke (for rehabilitation psychology at the University of Dortmund)
- Horst Bossong (Professor for Administrative Sciences , especially Social Administration, at the University of Essen)
- Gundula Barsch (professor specializing in drugs and social work at the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, private lecturer at the Institute for Social Pedagogy at the Technical University of Berlin)
- Thomas Feltes (lawyer and educational scientist, rector at the University of Police in Villingen-Schwenningen; substitute for the chair for criminology at the legal faculty of the Ruhr University in Bochum)
- Felix Gutzwiller (Director of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich)
- Cornelia Helfferich (Professor of Sociology at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences - University for Social Work, Diakonie and Religious Education Freiburg)
- Harald Hans Körner (Head of the Central Office for Combating Narcotics Crime (ZfB) at the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main)
- Karl-Artur Kovar (Managing Director of the Pharmaceutical Institute at the University of Tübingen)
- Karl Mann (Chair for Addiction Research, Central Institute for Mental Health Mannheim University Heidelberg)
- Karl-Heinz Reuband (Professor of Sociology, Methods of Empirical Social Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
- Rainer K. Silbereisen (Professor of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Adjunct Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Klaus Wanke (university professor at the University Nerve Clinic and Polyclinic, Saarland Psychiatry Department in Homburg).
Report of the Drugs and Addiction Commission
In its report, this commission sometimes strongly criticized the approach of the politically responsible and called for new approaches in drug policy and also recommended the deletion of certain paragraphs from the Narcotics Act without replacement. As is usual with such reports, the "most important" recommendations of the commission were sent to the federal government right at the beginning of the document . In it, the commission called on the federal government to be more neutral in the drug policy discussion and to turn away from the one-sided propagation of a drug-free society. Literally it says in the report on page three:
“The federal government should refrain from its own content-related and conceptual orientation that is too narrow and therefore from a fundamentally always one-sided view of things. For example, it would not be good for her to take the side of those who postulate a "drug-free society", and vice versa, just as little to commit to those who favor the concept of "drug acceptance". The dispute of opinion and values should rather take place in the social space, allowed by the Federal Government there even without its own assessment and ultimately left to concrete operational decisions by the local actors. "
Furthermore, in the "Summary of the most important recommendations", the commission formulated the first recommendation to the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Health with the unequivocal words on page 38:
"In the social, specialist disciplinary and association discussion about the objectives and methods of addiction prevention, state administration and politics should not rashly specify certain directions (implicitly or explicitly) through their own assessments and thereby narrow the scope for an open and possibly controversial dialogue."
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Drugs and Addiction Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health, Suchtmed 2 (1) 57 (2000)
- ↑ Drugs and Addiction Report 2003, Chapter 2.1.3. Final report of the Drugs and Addiction Commission, originally press release no. 13 from June 4, 2002 by the Federal Ministry of Health ( memento of the original from June 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 521 kB)
Web links
- Opinion of the Drugs and Addiction Commission to improve addiction prevention , authors: The Drugs and Addiction Commission at the Federal Ministry of Health, June 2002, Official report of the Drugs and Addiction Commission for the Federal Ministry of Health.