At present, when Europe is facing important changes concerning drug use and addiction, we think it is important to appeal to our group of states to build a global and more adapted policy on drug addiction. From our point of view, risk reduction is one of the undeniable pillars of this new policy. The European Letter for Risk Reduction has the goal to express and put together the main principles of this practice so it has its place in the definition of a European policy for psychoactive substance abuse.