Proposed amendment to the Act on Addictive Substances breaks through the pillars of restriction

The amendment proposed by MP Tomáš Vymazal to the Act on Addictive Substances introduces a groundbreaking possibility of providing two addiction services that are currently unavailable to users of addictive substances in the Czech Republic – application rooms supervised by a health professional and testing the quality of the substance within the addiction service.

“The proposal breaks through one of the current pillars of Czech drug restrictions – the legitimacy of possession of state-prohibited addictive substances within the current legal regime,” says Jindřich Vobořil, director of the Think Tank for Rational Drug Policy. “It extends the right to possess such substances to users who intend to administer a dose in a specific and controlled location. This corresponds to the strategy of risk minimization (so-called harm reduction), which has proven itself globally in the long term as the only meaningful and effective goal of public law and legislative activities in drug policy.”