The seminar is suitable for mental health professionals and students, other professionals who work in the drug abuse field in various treatment & prevention settings, educators, lawyers, medical doctors, nurses who are interested in the subject.

It investigates, among many aspects of the subject:

• The understanding of the drug use, abuse, dependence continuum,
• The biopsychosocial etiology of the phenomenon,
• The counselling and treatment approaches to the problem
• Evaluation
• Treatment planning
• Placing in the treatment continuum
• Phases of therapy
• Drugs and the family
• Family oriented interventions
• Special populations