Ministry of Health: 388 thousand people are addicted to drugs in Russia

388 thousand people suffer from drug addiction in Russia. In 2021, 17.5 thousand people received rehabilitation. This was announced by the director of the department of medical care for children, obstetrics and public health services of the Ministry of Health of Russia Elena Sheshko.

“Today, we have 388,000 patients with harmful use or drug addiction, 17,500 people received rehabilitation … in 2021,” Elena Sheshko said at a meeting of the social policy committee in the Federation Council (quote according to RIA Novosti).

According to her, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor have prepared an order for a phased medical and social rehabilitation. As Olga Batalina, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection, later explained, drug addicts will be able to apply for social rehabilitation after receiving drug treatment. They will be helped with the restoration of documents, job searches and lost social skills.

The day before at the Ministry of Internal Affairs reportedthat created a single list of sites blocked in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States for the distribution of drugs. The list includes sites that were used to distribute narcotic and psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors (components for their creation).

Olesya Pavlenko