Israel Anti-Drug Authority

Israel Anti-Drugs Authority Offices in Jerusalem.

Israel Anti-Drugs Authority or IADA (Hebrew: הרשות הלאומית למלחמה בסמים ואלכוהול‎‎) is a governmental law enforcement agency of executive authority responsible for drafting state policy, legal regulation, control and monitoring in combating trafficking drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors. The authority is specially authorized to address and solve problems relating to traffic in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors; The Authority is also authorized to combat the illicit drug trafficking.

Since 2009, the full name is Israel's Anti-Drugs and Alcohol National Authority.

History

IADA has been established by virtue of the 'Israel Anti-Drug Authority Law', at the end of 1988. IADA is a quasi-governmental agency, which operates under the aegis of the Prime Minister.

In 2005, the Israeli government extended IADA's mandate to include the battle on alcohol abuse. In 2009, the Knesset approved a decision granting the Ministry of Public Security responsibility for IADA.

Bribery

In December 2014, IADA's CEO, Yair Geler, was arrested for bribery. The Israeli police corruption task force, found that Geler and the IADA bribed government officials. According to Israeli police, IADA reached agreements with corrupt Israeli officials, by which they will reroute government funds to the IADA, and in return, Mr Geler and the IADA created rigged bids, which were used to transfer a set percentage of the funds, back to officials that approve them.

Structure

• Main Council
• Directorate
  • General-Director; Ronny Douek was appointed Director in 2004.^[1]
  • Deputy
    • Treatment and Rehabilitation
    • Prevention and Education
    • Research
    • Human Resources
    • International Relations
    • Community Action
    • Public Awareness
    • Law Enforcement Department
  • Administration

Missions

The principal duties, as defined by law, are to lead the national war on drugs and alcohol abuse by:

• Formulating all national policies related to education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
• Coordinating inter-ministerial and inter-institutional cooperation and activities.
• Initiating and developing educational and public awareness materials.
• Treating and rehabilitating victims of substance abuse, and their families.
• Supervising all areas related to law enforcement, and all institutions' respective roles in this area.
• Organizing communal awareness and prevention programs nationwide.
• Conducting research to track trends in use and to evaluate project implementation.
• Recruiting and training qualified professionals to lead the war on drugs from the bottom up.
• Providing national information services in many formats, through many vehicles and across the spectrum of the Israeli society.
• Recruiting volunteers to complement the professionals' role.
• Promoting drug-related public awareness materials in order to create a social climate which rejects drug use.
• Sponsoring drug related research, including national surveys and municipal surveys on drug abuse to track the extent of drug use and evaluation research on activities carried out by IADA and other institutions.
• Training professional staff to lead the war on drugs.
• Leading community work.

See also

• DEA, The U.S. Counterpart
• Anti-Narcotics Force

Further reading

• IADA // Overview

External links

• fficial Website

References