Passionate independence

The state is concerned about the problem of drug addiction. It is proposed to calculate drug addicts, introduce mandatory testing of schoolchildren and generally engage in prevention and rehabilitation. The directions are correct, but measures are very much like imitating the struggle.

The State Council on the problem of drug addiction became the benefit of the Federal Drug Control Service. President Medvedev described the problem with the most black colors. “According to expert estimates, we have at least two and a half million people use drugs. This is a terrible figure, of course. Moreover, 70 percent - youth under 30 years old, this is an even heavier figure. And what is especially difficult, literally in the last five years, the lower level of age, from which drugs begin to try, sank to a simply catastrophic level - 11-12 years. These are very children, students in grades 5-6. ”

The direction recommended by the president is generally understandable. Medvedev proposed to develop a monitoring system to find out how many drug addicts are in the country. Further, a qualitatively different prevention is needed. “The effectiveness of prevention remains extremely low,” the president admitted.

The third topic: Early identification of drug problems. Here, Medvedev supported the proposal to introduce drug tests in schools.

The president is concerned and the problem of rehabilitation of drug addicts. “The fourth direction of work is treatment, rehabilitation and subsequent socialization of drug consumers. The demand for such services is already significantly exceeding the possibilities of state structures. Moreover, the number of narcological medical institutions in recent years has declined, their financial situation and technical condition are far from the best, ”he said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed officials to think about the feasibility of replacing punishment for drug addicts for a number of offenses with drug addiction treatment.

The catastrophic data given by the president undoubtedly fell into the text from the statistics of the FSKN, which causes some doubts. The drug addict and the one who tried drugs (or even regularly use light drugs) - two different people. By the degree of danger to society, first of all. Accordingly, the measures that the FSKN offers and which the president announced, they are directed against everything at once and due to this are not specific enough.

The first area of ​​work is paid to more attention, where it calmly admits that the state does not know how many drug addicts live in the country. Where to distinguish them by type of drugs consumed.

Thus, it is recognized that the state policy in the field of combating drug addiction not only does not give an effect, but is also thrown blindly.

And even cure the already “discovered” drug addict (registered, as the president noted, costs 650 thousand) is not able to. Having signed a de facto in the inability to solve the problem, state-owned men hit the alarm and require more financing. The recognition is generally significant, because the state often does not want any help from society (see, for example, a monopoly on the charity and the affairs of the “malnutrition doctors” ). The question is how effective the alleged measures will be.

Measures to identify drug addicts, which are proposed by the state, cause a lot of complaints. Doubts are expressed both by the ethical principle (after all the invasion of private life), and by the actual effect. There are facts of test errors, the test should be carried out no later than a week after taking drugs, drug addicts will try to falsify the testing of the etc. And behind the initiative itself, the FSKN desire to manage a large large -scale project is clearly traced (see testomania ). What approach is understandable and possibly excusable, but the attitude is indirect to the real struggle with drug addiction.

The idea of ​​any prevention to the hearts of bureaucrats to the hearts of bureaucrats is, first of all, by the fact that in fact the results are difficult to evaluate, almost impossible, and if quantitative indicators are required (“For a year, three percent decreased by the number ...”) - they are easy to falsify due to a simple game with status.

This problem is common for the bureaucratic machine.

When the authorities try to solve the problem, unresolved by pumping money, they rests on a dead end. And they usually choose those solutions that do not solve anything. The solution is usually located when it promises a serious administrative or financial profit to persons pushing it. And the larger the profit, the louder the advertising of such a decision.

The profanation of the fight against drug addiction is visible by one characteristic feature. When it is difficult and not clear how to deal with a particular problem, the authorities invariably begin to “look for where it is light” - to offer to infringe on the freedom of the spread of information (sometimes really harmful, but the measure is not more useful from this). So now Dmitry Medvedev offers to close 10 thousand sites, which, in his opinion, are engaged in the popularization of drugs. Such “virtualization of the struggle” is a sure sign of departmental campaign, instead of a systematic approach.