Main responsibilities:

• collection, processing, and analysis of high-quality analytical, epidemiological, statistical, and other information on drugs and alcohol from the public, private and non-governmental organizations in terms of the prevalence of drug and alcohol use, as well as the assessment of socio-economic effects of their use, prevalence of infectious diseases associated with the drug and alcohol use, drug and alcohol-related deaths
• long-term systematic monitoring of the situation with drug and alcohol situation in Ukraine, its analysis and forecasting changes
• implementation of the system of scientifically based monitoring of the drug and alcohol situation in Ukraine, analysis of the integrated assistance provision to the patients with associated diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis, drug, and alcohol addiction
• implementation of basic registries of the drug and alcohol monitoring system
• 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
• interaction and exchange of information with national and international organizations or institutions on epidemiological and other sociological aspects of monitoring the controlled substances
• cooperation with the national and international organizations that are engaged in supporting the profile research in Ukraine
• participation in drafting the National Report on Drug and Alcohol Situation in Ukraine
• participation in drafting legislative acts within state policy on psychoactive substances, anti-drug and anti-alcohol prevention, including rules, regulations, and standards, the state and industry programs aimed at improving the drug and alcohol situation in the country, preventing trauma and other accidents related to psychoactive substance use, participation in drafting state accreditation standards, as well as the standards, protocols, statistic accounting and reporting forms for the drug treatment facilities
• conducting profile information, analytical and research activities
• informative, preventive, research activities in the field of narcology, psychology, psychotherapy, and related specialties