Latvian national focal point
The national focal point is located in Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia. The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia is a public institution responsible for data collection and monitoring on different public health issues.
News
Events, meetings and visits
- New health risks for Europeans in a fast-moving drug market
- First round of national focal point assessments completed!
- Coming soon: European Drug Report 2026 to be released on 9 June in Brussels
- New Reitox Alliance operating framework published
- EUDA Management Board meets to shape priorities and partnerships for 2026 and beyond
- European Drug Alert System launched today to strengthen preparedness and response to serious drug-related risks
Events
Events, meetings and visits
- Launch event: European Drug Report 2026 (09.06.2026, Brussels, Belgium)
- General population surveys (GPS) expert meeting 2026 (02.06.2026 to 03.06.2026, EUDA, Lisbon)
- Drug-related deaths (DRD) expert meeting 2026 (14.10.2026 to 15.10.2026, EUDA, Lisbon)
- 75th Heads of Reitox national focal points meeting (24.11.2026 to 26.11.2026, EUDA, Portugal)
- 74th Heads of Reitox national focal points meeting (05.05.2026 to 07.05.2026, EUDA, Portugal)
- Regional Reitox Academy on drug use and evidence-based prevention among youngsters (23.10.2025 to 24.10.2025, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Publications
Publications related to this partner
This report explains how the Reitox Alliance and the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) will work together under the Agency’s new mandate.
Harm reduction encompasses interventions, programmes and policies that seek to reduce the health, social and economic harms of drug use to individuals, communities and societies. On this page, you can find the latest analysis of harm reduction interventions in Europe, including key data on o
Drug-induced deaths are those that are directly attributable to the use of drugs. On this page, you can find the latest analysis of drug-induced deaths in Europe, including key data on overdose deaths, the substances implicated and more.
Opioid users represent the largest group undergoing specialist drug treatment, mainly in the form of opioid agonist treatment.
People who inject drugs are at risk of contracting infections through the sharing of drug use paraphernalia. On this page, you can find the latest analysis of drug-related infectious diseases in Europe, including key data on infections with HIV and hepatitis C, B and A viruses.
Despite a continued decline in injecting drug use over the past decade in the European Union, this behaviour is still responsible for a disproportionate level of both acute and chronic health harms associated with the consumption of illicit drugs.&nb
Document library
Relevant external documents or commissioned reports from the EUDA Document library
- European Commission (2025) Proposal for a regulation on monitoring and controlling drug precursors ( )
- Ministry of Health, Luxembourg (2020) Luxembourg’s Action Plan to reduce the misuse of alcohol PALMA, 2020-24 ( )
- Government of Luxembourg (2025) Drogendësch 2.0 - Interministerial national action plan ( )
- Communication from the to the European Parliament and the Council on the EU Action Plan against drug trafficking (COM/2025/744 final) ( )
- European Commission communication – EU Drugs Strategy ( )
- European Commission (2025) Evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2021-2025 and EU Drugs Action Plan 2021-2025 ( )
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Contact information
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia
Ms Ieva Pugule
Riga
Latvia