"Recently, this opposition to science and human rights reached a new frontier. There is an enormous stigma.
If one is caught with keeping drugs in large amounts (like more than 500 grams of morphine or more than 1500 grams of coke) they can get from 10 to 15 years in prison. They do not see an addiction as a clinical condition but they believe that we are bad people, criminals, who deserve to suffer.” The saying shows that Russia’s current drug policy does not help to drug addicts and to reduce the drug abuse. On the other hand, narcologists are prohibited from providing or promoting such methods of treatment and care, such as OST and harm reduction programs, under the threat of criminal and administrative sanctions. 1 Jun.
Besides, proper help and rehab for those unlucky ones who have addiction to make sure they can go on living without drugs. The rates are very high and it causes a lot of problems. 39 12. Moreover, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has urged Russia to apply a human rights-based approach to PWUD so that they do not forfeit their right to health [59, 60], while the UN Human Rights Committee has recommended that Russia provide effective drug dependence treatment to people in police custody [61] and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has recommended that Russia provide drug-dependent women access to OST [62]. It is a growing problem for Russia. However, Russia’s drug policy doesn’t work the way it should because of the corruption.
Russian drug against coronavirus can be supplied to hospitals on June 11 - newspaper ... the funding will contribute to the creation of an oceanic eco-culture on the tropical island. Publically available judgments indicate that people have either simply not shown up for their appointments with narcologists or failed to visit narcologists after diagnostics (after which narcologists report truant patients to the police) [33]. ""Russia's burgeoning HIV epidemic," The Lancet, Editorial, Volume 393, Volume 10172, P612, Feb 16, 2019.
By 2013, this system was fully implemented as state policy. Narcologists are also prohibited from openly supporting harm reduction activities, such as needle and syringe programs, because such support can lead to administrative or criminal sanctions for violations of drug propaganda laws [63, 64]. Ezhi who has been a social worker for the Andrey Rylkov foundation for five years says that “Russia wants to be strong and powerful, drug users do not suit that image and therefore seem to be ignored for the sake of ideal. Arguably, narcologists’ human rights are also infringed when Russian drug laws criminally prohibit evidence-based drug dependence treatment such as OST, thus subjecting narcologists who are willing to provide OST to their patients to life imprisonment for drug trafficking. Drugs only became such a massive problem in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The other reason is that there is no effective rehabilitation program available in Russia. Human Rights Violations and Russian Drug "Treatment" "Recently, this opposition to science and human rights reached a new frontier.
2018, doi:10.1186/s40985-018-0088-5"Analysis of court statistics demonstrates that the 2013–2014 amendments have not led to the expected outcome of “motivating” PWUD to undergo drug treatment or rehabilitation.
Because of the government’s ineffective approach to the drug users, number of drug users do not show significant move. Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation acknowledged that over 90% patients start to use drugs within a year. Anya Radul from AEGEE-Rostov-na-Donu says that “When you show people the real effects that drugs have on a person’s mind and body, when you teach children that soft drugs aren’t really cool. Clearly, this is not an exact measure of incidence, but it gives an indication that numbers continue to rise unabated. As of September 2017, there were also at least five applications pending before the European Court of Human Rights concerning the human rights of PWUD.3"However, human rights violations arising from punitive drug policy are not limited to PWUD. "Golichenko, Mikhail, and Sandra Ka Hon Chu.
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“Human rights in patient care: drug treatment and punishment in Russia.” Public health reviews vol. 1 Jun. Most people think we are animals.
Policies can affect humans’ lives directly or indirectly through the reproduction of social suffering. For example, the fine for a small amount of marijuana (up to 6 grams) will be up to 570€, for up to 2,5 grams of meth one will go to jail for 3 up to 10 years. Only about 2% of people convicted for drug administrative offenses chose to undergo treatment rather than punishment (about 1500 out of more than 70,000) [32] and only about 1% of 48,557 people who were involuntarily ordered to undergo drug dependence treatment remained drug-free within a year or more after treatment. According to a research, there are 2.2 million alcoholics, 700.000 alcohol related-deaths, 160.000 diagnosed with psychosis. “Human rights in patient care: drug treatment and punishment in Russia.” Public health reviews vol.
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