The Ministry of health is preparing a project to identify patients with alcoholism and drug addiction among patients of hospitals and clinics. This was told to the Agency “Moscow” the chief freelance psychiatrist of the Ministry Yevgeny Bryun.
The proposal came from Deputy Minister of health Tatiana Yakovleva. “This program aims to identify people there who abuses alcohol or drugs and received their disease in this regard. Our mission is to identify and to motivate the refusal of psychoactive substances,” said the psychiatrist. According to him, the program will operate throughout the country. It is going to run until the end of 2017.
“Now we are working on these technologies, go to the individual somatic hospitals. Here we identify approximately 15 percent of patients who got their disease in relation to alcohol or drug abuse,” said Brun.
According to a survey conducted by VTSIOM, the overwhelming majority of Russians (78 percent) approve of the idea of introducing criminal punishment for drug use. Against the free sale of drugs act 93 percent of Russians. Almost half of the respondents consider drug addiction a disease that should be treated.