Action Plan - Horizon 2024
The Action Plan for the Reduction of Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (PARCAD) - Horizon 2024 is the plan that operationalises the PNRCAD 2030 in the 2021 - 2024 cycle. As an Action Plan with a shorter cycle of 4 years, it focuses on specific priority objectives, appropriate to the problems and challenges identified in the document: Epidemiological Framework, a brief overview of the current situation.
PARCAD - Horizon 2024 presents in greater detail the prevalence rates, patterns of use, problems, motivations, attitudes and perceptions of risk in the general population and in specific population subgroups, taking into account the life cycle, gender, context and market indicators. In fact, over the decades, strategic options within the scope of public policies on CAD have been based on the evidence produced, the identification and characterisation of CAD-related problems, trends and developments, which the National CAD Information System has systematised annually. This document is therefore the executive instrument guiding the implementation of actions that are considered to contribute to achieving the Goals, General and Specific Objectives, and respective Indicators, within the framework of the strategic pillars: Empower; Care; Protect.
- Annual monitoring of the implementation of the actions set out in PARCAD - Horizon 2024 is available on the website: The Country Situation.
- The final evaluation of this action cycle 2021 - 2024 will be available on the page: Evaluation of PNRCAD 2030.
PARCAD - Horizon 2024 was approved by the Council of Ministers, together with PNRCAD 2030, on 27 July 2023, and published in the Diário da República on 26 September - Council of Ministers Resolution no. 115/2023.