– The substance of the drug debate is now hot in all parts of the world.

In the coming years, there will also be a lot of substance abuse in Finland, so the Parliament should not be excluded, the first signatory of the initiative, the representative of the Left Alliance, Anna Kontula, says. Recent societal developments have highlighted the need to look at substance abuse policy on a wider scale. The Finnish substance abuse policy has largely been a policy of alcohol, but recent social developments have highlighted the need for a broader review of substance abuse policy, the initiative states. In addition to alcohol, young adults in particular experiment with other drugs. Drug use and its accompanying lieve phenomena have increased in Finland through the 2000 century. At the same time, the legal and illegal markets for medicines and drugs have recently been overlapping. It is also a matter of the world. The ' anti-drug war ' has been declared unsuccessful and substance criminalisation has been alleviated in some places. In the next few years, the various actors in society will challenge the policy to take stock of at least the use of criminal regulation, drug-use regulation of substances containing narcotic properties, availability of substance abuse treatment, substance testing, Growth trends in drug-related deaths and so on. We hope to outline the Finnish political agenda. Many substance abuse problems still await their solution. A significant proportion of crime, ordinal disturbances, mental health problems, accidents and child protection needs are linked to drugs. Yet only a few drug addicts receive treatment and the problem of the use of Stigman is because users are also particularly vulnerable to other violations of the law. – The development of a national group focusing on individual substance Instead of substance abuse debate, we hope to outline the overall Finnish political agenda in a changed situation, "says Anna Kontula.