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Table 1 Shared and non-shared interventions and strategies

From: Open drug scenes: responses of five European cities

 

Amsterdam

Zurich

Frankfurt

Vienna

Lisbon

Shared political and social consensus

+

+

+

+

+

City coordinating system

+

+

+

+

+

System for shared information

+

+

+

+

+

Low threshold OPIOID MAINTENANCE TREATMENT

+

+

+

+

+

Needle dispensing

+

+

+

+

+

Health rooms/user rooms

+

+

+

-

-

Heroin assisted treatment (HAT)

+

+

(+)

-*

-

Housing projects

+

+

-

+

+

Shelters

+

+

+

+

+

Contact centre and café

+

+

+

+

-

Outreach social work services

+

+

+

+

+

Compulsory treatment

+

(+)

-

-

-

Reconstruction projects

+

-

-

+

+

Shared policing and social services patrolling

+

+

-

+

-

Zones of tolerance

-

-

-

+

-

Detention centre

-

+

-

-

-

Police dispersing tactics (compulsory)

+

+

+

+

+

Social behaviour orders

+

+

+

-

**

Treatment within criminal justice

+

+

-

-

-

Decriminalization of personal use

(−)

(−)

-

-

+

Expulsion/discouragement of non-residents

(+)

+

+

+

-

  1. *Vienna offers maintenance treatment with slow release morphine.
  2. **Commission for Dissuasion of Drug Addiction (CDT).