My most immediate task now I am here is to organise with Alcina Lo', the national co-ordinator of SICAD (General Directorate for Intervention on Additive Behaviour and Dependencies) and EMPECO (Strategic Planning and Operational Co-ordination), my access to specific data in their central database, which holds all the statistical information about the work of the CDTs and all the other centres and operations which constitute the network of the country-wide drugs strategy. Alcina has been a tremendous help to getting me access to visit the CDTs - the statistical data will be another fundamental input to my understanding of the working of the strategy.