Strategy of state anti-drug policy in Russia till 2020 discussed in Tatarstan Government House

By the data for October 1, 2011 9631 drug addicts are registered in Tatarstan Republic, Chief of Federal service on control over drugs circulation on RT Fayaz Shabaev informed at a meeting in RT Government House.

The meeting was dedicated to implementation of the RF Strategy of state anti-drug policy till 2020 in Tatarstan. Director of Federal service on control over drugs circulation Viktor Ivanov and Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in the event.

Speaking about situation in Tatarstan and measures on its improvement Fayaz Shabaev informed within the last three years the number of registered citizens does not exceed 1 %. It mainly increases due to unemployed young people under 30 years old.

According to Fayaz Shabaev lately the market is filled with cheap synthetic drugs. Some of them are brought in from China. 35 new kinds of drugs have been identified this year.

Tatarstan health care minister Airat Farrakhov reported on drug-prevention measures. He told about new forms of primary measures which have been used in Tatarstan since 2006, - preventive examination of students and draftees. More than 700 thousand people have been examined for this period and 916 drug addicts were found.

By the way, the number of addicts has decreased in Republic since 2006. Today other subjects of the federation are interested in Tatarstan experience in this sphere, Airat Farrakhov stressed.

Director of Federal service on control over drugs circulation Viktor Ivanov reminded about adoption of several documents aimed at anti-drug safety and handling urgent problems in the sphere of drug-related crimes.

The problem mainly concerns young people aged 30-35. Overdose and pathologic changes of vital parts are the main reasons of deaths, Viktor Ivanov marked.

By his words police measures are not enough to solve the problem, the demand for drugs is also a rather urgent issue. Head of Federal service on control over drugs circulation informed that every week new kind of drugs is synthesized in the world.

Viktor Ivanov thinks the issue of nacrotization concerns all industries – health care, education, culture, youth and sport organizations, and all religious confessions.

A video conference with participation of Kazan, Moscow, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Belgorod on issue “Leading regions free from desomorphine. Unique experience of four Russian subjects” was held in RT Cabinet later on.