- The Minister of Health this morning telematically chaired the 41st plenary meeting of the Sectoral Conference of the National Plan on Drugs
- The amounts approved will be used for the development of the National Drug Strategy, drug prevention programmes, rehabilitation and reintegration plans and the Spanish Drug Observatory.
- José Miñones has meant the unity of action between administrations that characterizes the approach to addictions in Spain
Barcelona, July 6, 2023.- The plenary session of the Sectoral Conference on the National Plan on Drugs (PNsD) approved this morning, unanimously, to allocate 1,406,979.88 euros to Catalonia to finance the development of policies on drug prevention and care for other addictions in the current financial year 2023.
The funds approved will be used for the development of the National Drug Strategy in the regional programmes derived from the PNsD (Euro468,682.5), for drug dependence prevention programmes within the framework of the National Drug Strategy (Euro733,555.51), for the development of the Spanish Drugs Observatory (Euro79,870.74) and for plans for the rehabilitation and reintegration of drug abusers with legal and criminal problems (Euro124,871.13).
The Minister of Health, José Miñones, has meant the unity of action between administrations that characterizes the approach to addictions in Spain, which guarantees society as a whole to be carried “with rigor and the maximum guarantees”.
In this sense, he thanked all the public administrations involved, as well as the Third Sector and the scientific societies for the paradigm of consensus and will that they represent before a subject “with an indisputable health, social and citizen security impact”, such as that of addictions.
The plenary meeting held on Thursday was attended by the Government delegate for the National Drug Plan, Joan Villalbí, as well as representatives of all the communities and autonomous cities concerned, the Second Vice-Presidency and the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy; and the Ministries of the Interior; Consumption; Territorial Policy; Education and Professional Training; and Finance and Public Service.
The credits, provided through the Government Delegation for the National Plan on Drugs, come from the General State Budgets, have the previous favorable report of the Ministry of Finance on the fulfillment of the objectives of budgetary stability and financial sustainability and were approved by the Sectoral Commission held on May 10.