The emerging threat to the health and safety of society posed by new psychoactive drugs was the focus of a regional meeting organised by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the country’s Ministry of Health and the Police Directorate, on 26 and 27 November 2019 in Podgorica.
Around 30 participants from law enforcement agencies and health care institutions of Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Serbia attended the event. Together with experts from the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Programme Office in Serbia and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), they discussed problems and challenges, and exchanged information and best practices on how to combat the illegal use of psychoactive substances.
The Mission supported this regional meeting as part of its efforts to provide assistance to Montenegrin institutions in devising a multidisciplinary approach to combating illicit drugs, especially in the context of law enforcement agencies’ efforts in countering serious and organized crime.