Drug and Addiction Council

Main article: Federal Government Drug Commissioner

The Drugs and Addiction Council , under the leadership of the Federal Government's Drugs Commissioner , is developing the strategic basis for the Federal Government's drug and addiction policy for the coming years. After a break and reforms in the system, it emerged from the Drugs and Addiction Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health.

The council was first constituted on October 27, 2004. It meets twice a year. The council makes recommendations and supports the drug commissioner of the federal government in the implementation of their projects.

Duties of the drug and addiction council

According to its rules of procedure, the task of the Drugs and Addiction Council is to support the Drugs Commissioner of the Federal Government in carrying out his duties and to advise him as a high-ranking body. The council should point out developments and problems that are of importance for the work of the drug commissioner of the federal government and the drug and addiction policy at the federal level and submit appropriate solutions. In addition, the goals and measures taken for their fulfillment in the “National Strategy for Drug and Addiction Policy” should be accompanied during their implementation. This takes place in the form of recommendations that the Council submits to the Federal Government's Drugs Commissioner. So that

Personnel composition

The composition of the drug and addiction council was not initially published. It was a request on the portal Abgeordnetenwatch replied on 17 January 2011, a list of participating organizations, but without mention by name, using the following 28 January 2011, arguing that the meetings "after the Rules of Procedure of Drug and Addiction Council not [are] public, therefore the minutes of the meeting are not published either. ”As a result, on January 28, 2011 a request for the Freedom of Information Act was sent, which the Office of the Drug Commissioner confirmed on February 2, 2011. Various media subsequently published on this topic and a petition was accepted in the German Bundestag on April 7, 2011, calling for transparency in the drug policy committees. The application under the IFG was satisfied on March 25, 2011 with an inspection of the files. On May 2, 2011, the rules of procedure of the Drugs and Addiction Council were published, and on May 31, the list of members by name was published by the Drugs Commissioner. As a result, the Drugs and Addiction Council has been criticized for disregarding the internationally recognized GIPA principle, i.e. the participation of people with HIV / AIDS at all levels of decisions affecting them, and for not representing any self-help organizations from the illegal drug sector. Recognized organizations such as the Society for Addiction Medicine (DGS) as an advocacy group and specialist society for many hundreds of addiction physicians are not involved, nor is Acceptance eV, the federal association for accepting drug work and humane drug policy .

The members of the Drugs and Addiction Council are representatives of the federal ministries, the federal states and central municipal associations as well as the members appointed by the drug commissioner of the federal government in agreement with the respective sending office.

They are among others representatives of:

Federal and State Ministries,
Associations of addiction help and self-help,
statutory health insurance,
addiction research,
the Federal Employment Agency as well
the German Medical Association
public television
the private television.

Influence of economic policy issues in the work of the Drug and Addiction Council

An official letter shows that the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology exerted influence in campaigns for alcohol and tobacco prevention for "economic policy" reasons.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Constitution of the Drugs and Addiction Council, accessed on August 2, 2010 .

↑ 2006 work program of the Drugs and Addiction Council accessed on August 2, 2010 (PDF; 26 kB).

↑ Rules of Procedure of the Drugs and Addiction Council ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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) @1@ 2

↑ Inquiry on the composition of the staff from January 7, 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .

↑ Inquiry about the Freedom of Information Act, including the composition of the drug and addiction council .

↑ Hanf Journal: Secret thing drug policy; The Drug and Addiction Council no longer meets in public .

↑ Petition 17578. Addiction dangers - more transparency of the committees on the drug problem. April 7, 2011, accessed January 5, 2013 .

↑ Blog of the applicant leader: Drug and Addiction Council no longer secret .

↑ List of members of the Drug and Addiction Council of Drug Commissioners in 2011. (PDF; 14 kB) (No longer available online.) Drogenbeauftragte.de, archived from the original on January 9, 2015 ; Retrieved January 18, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ Specialist magazine of the JES Federal Association: Drugs Courier (PDF; 2.7 MB).

↑ https://fragdenstaat.de/files/foi/4327/Anlage.pdf Letter from the BMWT, page 10 (PDF).

[1] Constitution of the Drugs and Addiction Council, accessed on August 2, 2010 .

[2] 2006 work program of the Drugs and Addiction Council accessed on August 2, 2010 (PDF; 26 kB).