ALCONA
CAN. Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs DESCRIPTION AND NOTES: 10,000 records with 500 posts per year. Content language is Swedish, English, Norwegian, etc. Abstracted. 1980 to present. CAN is a center for information on alcohol and other drugs with 40 non-governmental organizations as members. Many of them are temperance organizations, but parent-, sports-, client-, and youth organizations are also represented. The council receives financial support from the Swedish government. The chairman of the board is government appointed. The member organizations appoint the majority of the board members. CANs mission is to prevent alcohol and other drug abuse through the provision of facts, documentation and information. It aims to circulate objective information, serving people and organizations involved in drug prevention work. For this purpose CAN produces information resources, runs a library service and arranges training courses, seminars and conferences. CAN also monitors trends in the drug use and abuse, carrying out its own surveys and studies such as annual surveys on drug use among students and military conscripts. It is also compiling and summarizing survey findings, statistics and other data sourced from external researchers. CAN provides a link between research and the community. |
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