The use of the device “MINI-EXPERT-DT” in the diagnosis and treatment of drug addiction and concomitant pathology in juvenile convicts

AUTHORS : Gusev S.I. | Trifonov O.I. | Snigireva G.Ya. | Zakharova M.V.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments, Medical Service, Moscow, Russia

YEAR : 2005 | Category : Type of Application

In Russia, the number of people using doctor’s prescriptions is frighteningly large. narcotic drugs without according to the management interdepartmental interaction in the field of prevention of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for the Control of Drug Trafficking (2004), according to official statistics, more than 450 thousand drug addicts are registered with the health authorities, while, according to the results of sociological research, more than 3 million fellow citizens are systematically use drugs [1].

Many researchers note the frequent combination of drug addiction with various mental disorders, emphasize the role and importance of biological and social factors. The role of somatic burden in the emergence and dynamics of drug addiction is also considered. According to the NSC of Narcology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, in 2002 the number of patients with mental and behavioral disorders associated with the use of psychoactive substances amounted to 482 thousand people [2].

However, among the contingent of convicts, including minors, such statistics are practically absent or are scattered in nature, not reflecting in general the influence of biological, social, psychological and other factors on the formation of drug addiction in criminals. The leading etiological and pathogenetic tendencies, characteristic of this particular contingent, are not distinguished, the study of which would make it possible to identify priority areas for a complex of preventive and targeted treatment and rehabilitation measures. Many authors consider the main problem in achieving a stable remission in drug addiction to work with patients in the long-term period, after the relief of withdrawal and post-withdrawal disorders, when relapses and relapses occur against the background of relative well-being (Pyatnitskaya I.N., Naydenova N.G., 2002 ; Gofman A.G., 2002, 2003).