Drugs: Can You Cross out Any of 17 Points Below?

- drug addiction is a dangerous disease, which is developed in young years, it leads to quick disability of a person and quite often to premature death;

- increase of narcotization of Belarusian population involves crime, diseases, injuries, disability, break-up of families, shortening of life duration;

- every fifth Belarusian family, as scientists claim, collides with the consequences of drug addiction;

- during his short life an average drug addict introduces 10-15 people to regular drug use;

- the majority of drug addicted people reside in Belarusian cities: Minsk, Svetlogorsk, Soligorsk, Pinsk, Lida, Brest, Kobrin, Borisov;

- in accordance with statistic data an average Belarusian drug addict is a man aged 30, having no education (3%-students who in most cases leave studying; 2-3% have higher education);

- in year 2006 919 lethal cases among HIV-positive people were registered in Belarus, 685 (74,5%) of them were drug addicts;

- the main way of HIV transmission is parenthetic (while injecting drugs) - 64,2% (4906 cases were registered in year 2006);

- more than 50% of drug addicts have convictions, about 30% were convicted two or more times;

- 71% of drug addicts have no families (single);

- according to anonymous questionnaire of young people, held by the Ministry of Health together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 65-67% of young people support drug legalization;

- 35% of Belarusian students are in risk zone, as they are personally acquainted with people who consume drugs;

- 80% of children and youngsters who get into groups of drug addicts develop drug addiction;

- not more than 5% of drug addicted people in Belarus ask for medical aid, on the whole, they are revealed by the police or diagnosed when get to a hospital;

- average duration of hospitalization of a drug addict is 6-18 days; as a rule after 3-5 days patients feel better and refuse further treatment;

- forced (according to the court decision) treatment of drug addicts is usually conducted at mental clinics or in prisons;

- at present in Belarus there is neither state social care service drug addicts can apply for, nor shelters for disabled drug addicts.