Main responsibilities:

• development, improvement, and maintenance of the information systems for monitoring the problem use of psychoactive substances
• creating and keeping databases for the information on the problem use of psychoactive substances
• collection, processing, consolidation, and analysis of social, medical, epidemiological, statistical, and other information from the public, private and non-governmental organizations on the problem use of psychoactive substances in terms of their class, type, effects, etc. at the national and international levels
• ensuring the development of data collection systems, including the statistical methods through improving the accounting and reporting methods, raising the level of professional training of experts in relevant areas
• monitoring of the drug and alcohol situation in Ukraine pursuant to the requirements of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction on the Problem Drug Use Indicator (at the national and local levels in terms of class and type of psychoactive substances, etc.)
• participation in drafting the National Report on Drug and Alcohol Situation in Ukraine in terms of the Problem Drug Use Indicator
• assessment of the socio-economic effects of psychoactive substance use/results of general population studies on the problem use of psychoactive substances
• creating and keeping electronic databases for the information on the problem use of psychoactive substances
• interaction and exchange of information with national and international organizations or institutions on epidemiological and other sociological aspects of monitoring the problem use of psychoactive substances