Coordination Structure

The National Coordination for Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies(ABD) aims to ensure effective political and strategic coordination in the approach to ABD. This Coordination promotes the involvement and coordination, within the same structure, of the various Public Administration services and governmental areas involved in ABD-related issues.

This structure includes entities and bodies that, due to their composition, competences and way of working, allow for the coordination of public bodies or authorities, whether political or not, as well as the different actors in society, namely the family, civic, social, socio-professional and religious institutions, with direct or indirect involvement in the area of ABD. All these actors are part of the national coordination structure in the area of ABD, organised at three levels:

• At the political and governmental level, through the Interministerial Council, chaired by the Prime Minister and made up of the National Coordinator for ABD and the members of the government responsible for the areas related to the ABD issue: foreign affairs; finance; national defence; internal administration; justice; economy; agriculture; environment; labour; social security; health; education; science and higher education; equality and migration; youth and sport; housing; and territorial cohesion.
• At executive level, through the Technical Commission, chaired by the National Coordinator who, by inherent function, is the President of ICAD, IP, and made up of representatives from each of the ministers that make up the Interministerial Council.
• At a social level, through the National Council, an advisory body to the Prime Minister , chaired by the Prime Minister himself, with the power to delegate to the member of the Government responsible for the health area, who can sub-delegate. This body includes, in addition to the National Coordinator, a representative of the statutory bodies: Governments of the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and the Azores, the Superior Council of the Judiciary, the Attorney General's Office and various public and private institutions, entities and organisations representing civil society.
  

^{Source: Decree-Law no. 89/2023, of 11 October (creates ICAD, I. P. and also makes legislative changes in the area of ABD). Associated info: Decree-Law no. 1/2003 (reorganises the structures for coordinating the fight against drugs and drug addiction); Decree-Law no. 124/2011 (approves the Organic Law of the Ministry of Health).}