Local Drug and Screen addictions Plan of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia (2022-2026)

Challenge

Local drug and screen plans are a basic instrument for planning and promoting intersectoral policies aimed at improving the quality of life and modulating the impact of substance consumption and screen use among the population. In this sense, municipalities have the possibility and responsibility to promote this type of policy.

Therefore, drug and screen plans must be key instruments for organizing and enhancing the resources that already exist in the city and also for promoting the deployment of devices or actions that respond to unmet needs, taking into account the circumstances that place certain people, families or social groups in more fragile and vulnerable positions.

Answer

A Drug and Screen Plan is developed to bring together all the preventive and risk reduction actions that are implemented at the local level, whether universal, selective, indicated or specific.

To this end, a participatory and intersectoral working methodology is used, which incorporates citizens and the municipal technical staff. This process is organized into two main phases:

• First, a diagnosis is carried out, in which an analysis of the situation of substance consumption and screen use in the municipality is carried out. This first phase is developed through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies in order to obtain exhaustive knowledge of the different areas linked to substance consumption and screen use and identify their needs. On the one hand, a questionnaire is designed and administered to young people between 14 and 18 years old. On the other hand, discussion groups are conducted with young people and professionals from the municipality linked to substance consumption and screen use are interviewed.
• Secondly, a plan is drawn up, which defines the lines of action that must be taken to respond to the needs detected. This second phase results in the Action Plan, which organizes the strategic objectives, the actions and the appropriate methodologies to achieve them. Finally, a monitoring and evaluation system is designed that will determine the degree of achievement of the objectives set.