During the study tour, participants visited the Polish Department of Prison Service, investigative wards in Krakow, Lublin and Warsaw, and the Centre for Drug Addicts run by a non-governmental organization.

The visits were organized to introduce delegates from Central Asia to imprisonment policies in semi-closed facilities, the use of modern technologies and drug detecting dogs on the territory of penitentiaries, as well as the treatment of inmates addicted to drug and / or alcohol.

During the visit to the Department of Prison Service, the participants of the study tour were instructed in methodologies on preventing drug abuse in prisons, training prisons’ personnel, drug users treatment techniques, preparation of prison inmates foreseen to be released soon and incentives for collaboration with the Ministry of Heath and NGOs after the prisoner’s release.

At the investigative ward in Warsaw the study tour participants were familiarised with the “Atlantis” rehabilitation programme, which is designed to treat former prison inmates that are addicted to drugs.

The overall objective of the EU-UNDP CADAP Programme is to foster a public health approach to drug demand and an interdiction approach to drug supply in line with the European Union drug strategies.

CADAP is funded by the European Union and implemented by UNDP.