Hundreds of Crimean drug addicts left for Ukraine - they will continue to stay on methadone
Over the almost 14 months that have passed since the reunification of Crimea with the Russian Federation, the number of alcoholics and substance abusers on the peninsula has decreased, and some drug addicts have moved to Ukraine.
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The Moscow newspaper Izvestia writes about this , citing a report from the Russian Ministry of Health.
Thus, in Crimea in 2014, the number of alcoholics registered at a dispensary decreased by 3%, to 22 people. The number of substance abusers registered at the dispensary also decreased - by almost 127%, to 14 people.
“In Crimea there are very good centers that are more aimed at the social rehabilitation of people suffering from various addictions. And medical rehabilitation in Crimea is very young, since this area began to develop, by and large, in September. In addition, the reduction in the number of alcohol dependent people occurred due to optimization. We have removed those who have been absent from our territory for a long time. Now these accounting figures correspond to reality,” Marina Shorenko, chief freelance narcologist of the Crimean Ministry of Health, commented on the situation.
According to the official representative of the National Anti-Drug Union in the region, Arsen Ismailov, about 100 people who were previously on methadone replacement therapy, which was allowed while Crimea was part of Ukraine, have returned to continue drug use on its territory. In total, about 800 people participated in the republic’s methadone program.
English version :: Read in English Hundreds of Crimean drug addicts have left for Ukraine to continue their methadone addiction.