If you have been prosecuted for drug use, you can opt for a preventive education service, commonly known as diversion. Diversion can help occasional (non-addicted) drug users to avoid potential penalties and gain self-awareness with the help of professionals.

What happens?

Diversion takes place in groups or individually. Group sessions are led by a staff member and a volunteer facilitator, and focus on a specific topic, in the form of free discussion and self-awareness exercises.

The group sessions take place at the following times:
Tuesday 16:30-18:00
Wednesday 17:00-18:30
Thursday 17:00-18:30

Address: 1122 Budapest. Csaba u. 3.

How to apply?

11.11.01.2013, 11.11.2013, 11.11.2013, Tambu Centro de Cuba, Budapest.

Contact:

+36 30 678 73 57 / +36 1 224 01 22

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Or you can come in person during office opening hours.

We will ask you for your papers from the police, prosecutor's office, patron's office with the case number on it. To start diversion, you will also need a preliminary assessment from a psychiatrist (a certificate that this form of diversion is right for you); if necessary, we can help you find out where to get this. Once you have all the paperwork, we will make an agreement and you can start the programme.

The diversion process

The minimum duration of the diversion is 6 months, 12 sessions in total. You can come twice a month, every two weeks. No more than 30 days should elapse between two visits, because then your diversion will be interrupted and you will have to start all over again. After your first session, you will receive an official certificate of the start of the diversion, in 3 copies, which you must send to the authorities. At the end of the process, after 12 sessions, you will also be given 3 certificates of completion of the programme, which, if you send to the authorities, will close the case against you.