The drug user in the eyes of the townsfolk was not always associated with the criminal, and the use of drugs at different times was socially acceptable, until they gradually began to ban them around the world. Very quickly, buyers of heroin, previously in free sale, and then prohibited for circulation, from ordinary citizens with addiction turned into representatives of the social bottom.

One of the main tasks that drug addicts face after the rehabilitation course is to build your life so that it has as little risks as possible to break. Where some see an ordinary residential area with high -rise buildings, sidewalks, shops and benches, invisible routes for others, along which they drove them daily for years. To get out of the risk zone, it is not enough to stop the use and overcome the breaking.

Here is an essay on Alexander Delphinov, a poet, journalist and participant in the Derwrofia project, struggling for the liberalization of anti -drug policy. Samizdat opens the second chapter of the study of heroin in Russia and the world devoted to the perception of this drug and dependent on it in society.

The rhetorical and propaganda tools for combating drugs was formed not so long ago, and to a large extent it was influenced by the US experience, where in the second half of the 20th century politicians decided to use the term “war with drugs”, implementing a new approach both at the legislative level and in the struggle for the minds of citizens.