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Table HSR-10. National substitution registries and other sources of data on substitution clients
| Country | National substitution registries and other sources of data on substitution clients | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Substitution Treatment National Registry (since 2005). Under-estimate, as foreign nationals are not included. | |
| Bulgaria | National Centre for Addictions - Register for Substitution Treatment Programmes, Register for Patients on Substitution Maintenance Treatment. | |
| Czech Republic | Ústav zdravotnických informací a statistiky CR (Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic) - Substitution Treatment Register; National focal point - Crude estimation of buprenorphine clients (according to distributed quantity of buprenorphine and results of the survey among clients of Prague low-threshold facilities). | |
| Denmark | National Registry of Drug Users Undergoing Treatment. The Registry contains information of people receiving drug treatment through their county excluding people in prison and hospitals. | |
| Germany | The Federal Opium Monitoring Centre at the Federal Institute for Pharmaceutics and Medical Devices (BfArM) monitors the quantity of delivered narcotics and has been keeping the National Substitution Register since its creation in 2003. The register is based on yearly census (1 July). Anonymised individual codes are used but double counting cannot be totally excluded. | |
| Estonia | Global Fund programme. | |
| Ireland | Central Treatment List, maintained by the Drug Treatment Centre Board, Trinity Court, Dublin 2. It is a statutory requirement to report any person receiving methadone treatment to the Central Treatment List. Each client has a unique identifier. Birth certificate and photograph must be provided to the Central Treatment List. Only authorised GPs and pharmacists can dispense methadone for the treatment of opiate dependence. There is a special prescription form. | |
| Greece | Data come from 7 methadone substitution units and 10 buprenorphine substitution units, which are the only officially recognised centres that can offer such treatment. The data collection is by an adjusted version of the Treatment Unit Form (TUF A) (see EIB. The collected information is controlled annually to check internal coherence as well as congruence across the years. This collection procedure is conducted annually by the Greek Reitox focal point. As far as substitution treatment is concerned, monitoring is also performed by the Organisation Against Drugs (?????), the only agent that has the permission granted by law to establish, operate and supervise substitution treatment programmes. | |
| Spain | Registration at regional level (Autonomous Communities and Cities). | |
| France | OFDT estimate, based on datasets SIAMOIS/InVS. For methodology see: Cadet-Taïrou, A et al (2004) Les traitements de substitution en France: résultats récents 2004. Tendances June 2004,No. 37. http://www.ofdt.fr/ofdtdev/live/publi/tend.html | |
| Italy | National survey by National Research Council - SIMI®Italia Project. National sampling of 14% of clients/units. | |
| Cyprus | n.a. Methadone maintenance treatment under preparation in Cyprus. | |
| Latvia | Methadone programme of the State Addiction Agency. State Register of Persons with Drug Dependence and Substance Misuse. | |
| Lithuania | Vilnius Center for Addictive Disorders (VCAD) has a central database on methadone treatment. Health care institutions that prescribe methadone are obliged to report about inclusion or discharge of each patient. Private treatment under-reported. | |
| Luxembourg | National substitution treatment register to be established within the Directorate of Health. The register should become operational in the course of 2007. Currently, data on clients in treatment are provided by the Luxembourg Information Network on Drugs and Drug Additions ('réseau luxembourgeois d'information sur les stupéfiants et les toxicomanies', RELIS) and National Health Insurance Union. | |
| Hungary | Data on MAT centres and their clients is collected in the frame of Methadone Treatment Report 2005 by the specialised outpatient treatment centre of Nyíro Gyula Hospital. | |
| Malta | Substance Misuse Outpatient Unit (SMOPU), the centralised substitution unit in Malta. | |
| Netherlands | The National Alcohol and Drugs Information System (LADIS) covering outpatient addiction care and treatment, conducted by the Organization Care Information Systems (IVZ). Homepage: www.sivz.nl | |
| Austria | Register on substitution treatment of the Department of Health and Women BMG. Annual analysis of the register on substitution treatment is carried out by the NFP. The data is not complete; experience indicates that not all doctors or services report start of MAT to the register. Reporting obligation for GPs only introduced in March 2007. | |
| Poland | National Bureau for Drugs Prevention, Poland. | |
| Portugal | Instituto da Droga e da Toxicodependência, Portugal. | |
| Romania | Romanian Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction/ Central Statistical Unit, Ministry of Health. | |
| Slovenia | Client documentation at CPTDAs and prison treatment statistics (UIKS Annual Report). | |
| Slovakia | General Secretariat of the Board of Ministers for Drug Addiction, Slovakia. | |
| Finland | Voluntary and anonymous national drug treatment information system based at STAKES. | |
| Sweden | Register of MAT-units, National Board of Health and Welfare. | |
| UK (England) | National Drug Treatment Monitoring System. | |
| UK (N. Ireland) | Northern Ireland Substitute Prescribing Database (SPD). | |
| UK (Scotland) | Prescription Information System, Information Services Division, National Services Scotland, NHS Scotland. | |
| Norway | The Unit for Addiction Medicine, University of Oslo. |
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