This publication will explore the limitations for evaluation of drug prevention interventions and address the ways that evaluation can be made more effective. The Prevention Platform of the Pompidou Group (PG) of the Council of Europe has developed a framework of the publication in the context of the work undertaken in recent years in Europe to improve prevention interventions.

The results of this work include “Handbook on prevention” by the PG and Jellinek Consultancy, “Prevention and evaluation resources kit” by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) as well as its database of good practices developed within the framework of
the Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action (EDDRA), COST-A6 programme publications and the 2010 Prague Conference of the Pompidou Group “Prevention evaluation: from dogma to useful tool”.