The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox:

European approach for a safe and healthy nightlife

Objective: The objective is to increase the knowledge of professionals that work in nightlife settings on effective methods to create a safer and healthy nightlife for youth.

Information: The Healthy Nightlife is an international initiative that focuses on the reduction of harm caused by alcohol and drug use among young people. The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox contains: information on evaluated interventions, abstracts of reviewed literature, contact details of consultants, and a digital handbook of good practice for preventing problems relating to drugs and alcohol in nightlife settings.

Target group: The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox has been developed for prevention workers and policy makers in and outside the EU. The toolbox is an international database that exchanges knowledge, experiences and scientific research on alcohol and drugs in nightlife settings.

Web address: on www.hnt-info.eu you can find the following information:
• interventions with an indication of effectiveness;
• abstracts of literature studies;
• contact information of experts on the area of alcohol, drugs and nightlife;
• a digital handbook on the prevention of problems relating to alcohol and drug use in nightlife settings.

Start and end date: January 2008 – January 2011

Funding: European Commission

The organisations involved in the project are
Trimbos Institute www.trimbos.org  
Centre for Public Health Liverpool John Moores University www.cph.org.uk  
National Institute for Drug Prevention www.ndi-int.hu  
VAD www.vad.be  
IREFREA www.irefrea.org  

Contact: Ninette van Hasselt

Secretariat: phone number +31 302 971 133