Think Tank

Rational dependency policies

A multidisciplinary association of independent and eminent experts who address the issue of addiction from all angles - public and individual health, legislation and other legal implications, including security challenges, economics including market modelling, taxation, economic impact on public budgets, education and prevention, and finally social and sociological and political science.

https://www.politika-zavislosti.cz

PhDr. Václav Friedmann, Ph.D.

President of the Association

He graduated from Masaryk University, has more than 20 years of experience in media, PR, Public Affairs. For the last 8 years he worked as Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Sazka, where he gained extensive experience in public affairs in regulated business, especially in communication with the regulator, state administration and legislators.

Pavel Zbožínek

He worked for sixteen years in the Chamber of Deputies and also worked in the Drug Policy Department of the Government Office. Although he is no longer politically involved in this way, he is still involved in election campaigns. He is a shareholder in CBD Medical, s.r.o.

doc. MUDr. Viktor Mravčík, Ph.D.

Chairman

Doctor with specialisation in hygiene and epidemiology. Doctor of preventive medicine at the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and associate professor of the Clinic of Addiction Medicine. Former head of the National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction at the Government Office. He has published numerous scientific and conceptual papers in the field of epidemiology of legal and illegal drugs, and gambling.

Mgr. et Mgr. Helena Rampachová

Psychologist and manager. Chair of the Council of the Association of Addiction Services Providers (APAS), member of the Government Council for Coordination of Addiction Policy. Deputy Director of the Society of Helping Hands o. p. s., where she has been working for almost 20 years. At the same time she is active in the Rational Addiction Policy Think Tank.

MgA. Petr Pleva

He gained experience in legislation during his tenure in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2010. In the following years, he worked with the National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil on the preparation and implementation of a European project dealing with the development of legislation in the field of addiction policy. Currently, he works as a legislative consultant and cooperates with the Department of Drug Policy of the Government Office on the preparation of laws related to the regulation of addictive substances.