Drug addicts on the bunks!

Drug police want to introduce criminal liability not only for merchants, but also for consumers. Whether this measure will help reduce the number of consumers is unclear. But it is clear that this will require gigantic costs and will lead to inflating the States of the FSKN. And will also create additional conditions for corruption.

The government officials came up with how to overcome drug addiction - drug addicts should be planted. “We propose to secure points on liability for non -medical use of narcotic drugs in the Criminal Code, as well as send these detainees for forced treatment,” said Sergey Yakovlev (quote for Interfax), the head of the Investigative Department of the Federal Drug Control Service). According to him, all this will require the creation of a complex multi -level system. “Every year we remove about three tons of heroin, delay about 100 thousand people, 7.5 thousand people die annually from an overdose. The time has come to solve this problem, ”Yakovlev believes.

Now the liability in the Criminal Code is provided for the acquisition, storage, distribution, transport, production - typical ways to earn drug addicts. Now it is proposed to extend the practice of “consumers” of prohibited substances.

Officials and officials to periodically offer measures controversial from the point of view of common sense. In fact, FSKN offers to seriously expand her powers in order to intimidate potential drug addicts. In fact, a giant field will be released for activities with poorly predicted consequences for citizens and the state.

The number of drugs used by drugs, designed by the UN methodology, is about 2.5 million people. According to some expert estimates, it is even higher - up to 4 million. Accordingly, the scale of the problem is at least state: too many citizens are affected by the problem of introducing criminal liability for drug use.

In this context, the introduction of responsibility turns into a fiction - either it is necessary to create an apparatus for landing and forced several million people, or the article will turn into a corruption mechanism for individual unconscious functionaries of the FSKN. The first option is difficult to imagine. During the “Great Terror” of 1937-38, the NKVD arrested “only” 1.6 million people.

The FSKN is equal to the Chekists only by the number of letters in the abbreviation, and the requirements for conducting criminal cases have grown many times since then.

The task that the FSKN set before itself and the state will thus load the prison at once, create problems for the healthcare system and so on. However, the problem of drug addiction will not be resolved.

But it will appear, as noted above, an extensive field for all kinds of abuse related to drug use. After all, such criminal cases may well break a career for a person - in the public sector, for sure.

The Russian state apparatus is so arranged - if you create a norm in which there is a field of activity for a corrupt official, then quite quickly this field will be marked, divided and mastered. And in this case, the risk of this outcome is extremely great.

FSKN regularly proposes to expand its powers at the expense of a particular initiative. The last victory of the department was the initiative to introduce mandatory testing of drugs for schoolchildren. True, the results are not so completely specific, but even gross - there were no reports yet and it is definitely impossible to judge successes in the fight against drug addiction in the youth environment. Most likely, no iconic victories were revealed based on the results of the checks, since the tests easily bypassed with a little acquaintance with the subject of verification. However, the initiative was supported by the government.

Not an example of a different initiative from 2007. Then drug police wanted to tighten the conditions for the sale and licensing of some substances. The number of which included acetic acid and even acetone. It turned out a huge field for activity.

The introduction of criminal liability for drug consuming is an unpleasant initiative not so much for the use of themselves, but for the state, the expenses of which - in case of successful initiative through all circles of the bureaucratic process, will seriously increase. Therefore, the chances of passing the idea are extremely small. With a scarce budget and falling oil, few will go to experiments with the creation of a network of special medical institutions. Therefore, the plans of drug controllers, if it is possible to push back, then not in the coming years. Although the idea should be admitted, "rich."