Networking among town halls to promote drug abuse prevention: “Xarxa Perifèrics”

Perifèrics is a Network created by a group of town council experts on drug addiction prevention who had the need to know and exchange experiences and programmes from other town councils. The lack of a common space and of referents in this field lead to a self-managed initiative started by a small group of municipalities that currently includes the majority of organisations, town councils and other administrations that work in prevention in Catalunya. The Network is a common area of learning and technical support that not only reinforces the task carried out by each expert in their own municipalities but that also claims prevention and health promotion as a human right,\r\nassuming the fact that it is much better to intervene before the drug related problem appears.