What Eurotox does

Eurotox asbl is a Brussels-registered Belgian non-profit (association sans but lucratif) functioning as a socio-epidemiological observatory for alcohol, tobacco, and drug use across Wallonia and Brussels. The organization operates as the official Sub-point focal point of the REITOX network for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA/OEDT), a public mandate that designates it as the francophone Belgian node for European drug-monitoring reporting. With a lean team of 6 employees, Eurotox serves public health authorities, frontline addiction professionals, harm-reduction workers, and policy-makers by aggregating and publishing epidemiological indicator data drawn from specialized services, treatment providers, and field-level observers operating across the territory.

The organization's product surface includes annual drug-use dashboards (Tableaux de bord), socio-epidemiological bulletins, practical sheets for frontline professionals, legislative and policy bulletins, and a Système d'Alertes Précoces (Early Warning System) for novel psychoactive substances. Underlying these outputs is a socio-epidemiological surveillance platform that collects, normalizes, and publishes indicator data for EMCDDA reporting, supplemented by the ARCAD-W research project, Global Drug Survey collaboration with Sciensano, ULB-produced practical guides, and integration with the Know Drugs app for harm-reduction distribution. All outputs are published free of charge.

Eurotox operates as a grant-funded public observatory rather than a commercial entity. Its funding base comprises four named government bodies — COCOF (French Community Commission), the Walloon Region, AVIQ (Agence wallonne pour une vie de qualité), and COCOM (Joint Community Commission) — with no disclosed commercial pricing, subscription model, or earned-income stream. Products and publications are distributed at no cost to public institutions, professionals, and the broader public, making the organization's financial trajectory fully contingent on regional and community-level public-sector appropriations.

Name

Eurotox

Legal name

Eurotox asbl

Website

https://eurotox.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Eurotox asbl is a Brussels-registered non-profit socio-epidemiological observatory monitoring alcohol and drug use across Wallonia and Brussels, serving as the francophone Belgian REITOX focal point for the EMCDDA and funded by regional government bodies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Research and Epidemiological Surveillance

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

akta.pro primary industry

Pharmacovigilance, Medication Safety & Controlled Substance Diversion Monitoring (HLAFALAN)

Keywords

• Socio-epidemiological surveillance
• Drug use monitoring
• Early warning system
• Public health observatory
• Addiction research

Headquarters

HQ city

Bruxelles

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Eurotox asbl operates as a socio-epidemiological observatory for alcohol and drugs in Wallonia and Brussels, producing annual drug-use dashboards, socio-epidemiological bulletins, practical sheets for frontline professionals, and legislative/policy analysis. It runs an Early Warning System (Système d'Alertes Précoces) for novel psychoactive substances and serves as the Sub-point focal of the REITOX network for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA/OEDT), reporting against five key epidemiological indicators.

Product overview

Eurotox asbl is a socio-epidemiological observatory for alcohol and drugs in Wallonia and Brussels, functioning as a research and public health information organization rather than a commercial product company. Their offering consists of publications (annual drug use dashboards called 'Tableaux de bord', socio-epidemiological bulletins, practical sheets for professionals), an Early Warning System for alerting about dangerous substances, training programs, and specific research projects like ARCAD-W. They also provide legislative and policy analysis bulletins. As a non-profit public health organization affiliated with the REITOX network of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OEDT/EMCDDA), they do not offer commercial products but rather public health information services.

Differentiator

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Products and services

• Tableaux de bord de l'usage de drogues et ses conséquences socio-sanitaires (Drug Use Dashboards) Annual dashboards tracking drug use patterns and socio-health consequences in Wallonia and Brussels, providing epidemiological data, trends, and analysis using five key EUDA indicators.
• Bulletins socio-épidémiologiques (Socio-Epidemiological Bulletins) Periodical socio-epidemiological bulletins covering specific topics such as alcohol, cannabis, drug prevention among youth, and treatment requests in Brussels and Wallonia.
• Fiches pratiques pour les professionnel·les de première ligne (Practical Sheets for Frontline Professionals) Practical information sheets for frontline professionals addressing substance misuse, including nitrous oxide (protoxyde d'azote), pregabaline (Lyrica), and other substances.
• Système d'Alertes Précoces (Early Warning System) Early warning system providing alerts about dangerous or new psychoactive substances circulating in Belgium, accessible via email subscription or smartphone app (Know Drugs).
• Formations (Training Programs) Training programs and continuing education for professionals working in the addiction and substance use field in Wallonia and Brussels.
• Projet ARCAD-W A coordinated action project (Action Coordonnée) on alcohol and drug issues in Wallonia, bringing together multiple specialized services to harmonize approaches and share data.
• Bulletins législatifs et politiques (Legislative and Policy Bulletins) Legislative and political bulletins providing accessible updates on legislative and policy developments related to drug use in Wallonia and Brussels.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• OEDT / EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEurotox serves as the designated Sub-point focal (Sous-point focal) of the REITOX network for the European Drugs and Addictions Observatory (OEDT/EMCDDA). This formal mandate positions Eurotox as the official conduit for European-level drug surveillance and reporting from Belgium's French-speaking regions to the EU-wide early warning system and five-key-indicator reporting mechanism.
• DAWA (Drogues Action Wallonie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDAWA is a Walloon platform of federated addiction services created in 2018, of which Eurotox is a founding member alongside Centre d'Action Laïque de la province de Luxembourg, Infor-Drogues, Modus Vivendi, Prospective Jeunesse, réseau ALTO, and the prevention service of the City of Mons. DAWA functions as a collaborative network to harmonize and strengthen addiction services across Wallonia.
• Modus VivendimajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerModus Vivendi is a Belgian francophone organization active in the field of addiction and harm reduction. It is a founding member of the DAWA platform alongside Eurotox and collaborates on shared publications, early warning system data, and field interventions targeting people who use drugs.
• Infor-DroguesmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInfor-Drogues is a Belgian French-speaking information and prevention service specializing in addiction issues. It is a founding member of the DAWA platform alongside Eurotox and collaborates on harm reduction, field actions, and information-sharing for people who use drugs.
• Prospective JeunessemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProspective Jeunesse is a Belgian organization working with young people on issues of addiction and social integration. A founding member of the DAWA platform alongside Eurotox, contributing expertise on youth-targeted prevention and harm reduction interventions.
• SciensanomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEurotox collaborates with Sciensano, the Belgian institute of health, notably to support the Belgian participation in the Global Drug Survey (GDS), the world's largest online survey on drug use. Eurotox disseminated the GDS questionnaire in Belgium to ensure representation from French-speaking regions.
• FWPSante (Fédération des Centres de Planning Familial & Services)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFWPSante is the Federation of Family Planning Centers and Services in the French-speaking Belgian community. Eurotox collaborates on joint publications and awareness campaigns, including materials addressing drug-facilitated sexual violence (in partnership with Sex&Co, a project of the Fédération Laïque de Centres de Planning Familial).
• COCOF (Commission communautaire française)coreOthersCOCOF (Commission communautaire française / French Community Commission) is a Belgian public institution that is one of Eurotox's principal government funding bodies, providing financial support for its operations and mission in the French-speaking community of Brussels.
• Wallonia (Walloon Region)coreOthersThe Walloon Region is a key government funder of Eurotox asbl, supporting its activities and mission in Wallonia.
• AVIQ (Agence pour une Vie de Qualité)coreOthersAVIQ is the Walloon agency for health, quality of life, and social welfare. It is a government funding body for Eurotox asbl, supporting public health missions related to addiction and substance use in Wallonia.
• COCOM (Commission communautaire commune)coreOthersCOCOM (Common Community Commission) is a Belgian public institution for Brussels that co-funds Eurotox asbl's operations and mission in the Brussels-Capital Region.
• Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) — Département de Médecine GénéralemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEurotox collaborates with the Department of General Medicine at ULB on the development of practical guides for frontline professionals, including a practical sheet on the misuse of nitrous oxide (protoxyde d'azote), co-authored with research assistants from the department.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• IFT Institut für Therapieforschung: German research institute coordinating addiction epidemiology and acting as a REITOX national focal point; comparable mission of standardized indicator reporting, novel psychoactive substance surveillance, and front-line professional resources.
• Trimbos Instituut: Dutch national knowledge center on addiction and mental health; serves as the Netherlands' REITOX focal point and performs near-identical socio-epidemiological monitoring, early warning, and prevention research activities for the Walloon/Brussels analog.
• CAN (Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs): Swedish REITOX focal point producing national epidemiological monitoring and reports on alcohol and drug use patterns; directly comparable function as a state-funded observatory producing annual drug use indicators.
• OFDT (Observatoire français des drogues et des tendances addictives): France's national REITOX focal point and socio-epidemiological observatory for drugs and addictive trends—the most direct counterpart to Eurotox, performing the same EMCDDA-aligned epidemiological monitoring, dashboards, and early warning role at national scope.
• Sucht Schweiz: Swiss national addiction research foundation serving as Switzerland's REITOX focal point; runs comparable epidemiological monitoring, harm reduction research, and public-facing publications for the German/French/Italian-speaking regions.

Others

• Sciensano: Belgian federal public health research institute; partners with Eurotox on Global Drug Survey dissemination and broader health surveillance—overlapping on epidemiological data aggregation but with a much wider health mandate.
• Modus Vivendi: Belgian francophone harm reduction organization and DAWA founding member that co-publishes and shares field data with Eurotox; comparable as a regional addiction-service provider contributing data into Eurotox's analyses.
• DAWA (Drogues Action Wallonie): Federated Walloon platform of addiction services founded by Eurotox and six partner organizations; directly interdependent on Eurotox for epidemiological coordination, dashboards, and policy input.
• Infor-Drogues: Belgian francophone addiction prevention/information service and DAWA founding member collaborating with Eurotox on field data, publications, and harm reduction initiatives in the same geography.

Broad incumbents

• EMCDDA / EUDA (European Union Drugs Agency): The European-level hub that coordinates REITOX national focal points including Eurotox; provides the EMCDDA/EUDA framework, indicators, and early warning protocols that Eurotox implements at the regional level.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

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