Substitution methadone therapy for drug addicts, which operated in the Crimea for 8 years, in fact did not help, and killed the Ukrainian buyers pay hospitals, said the Head of the Federal drug control service of the Russian Federation Victor Ivanov.
" The mortality rate among those who were exposed to substitution therapy, 10 times higher than among uninvolved in this inhuman scheme. At present, in Ukraine there were a system of physical extermination of drug users ", - said the head of the Federal drug control service Viktor Ivanov at the meeting of the State anti-drug Department, held in Crimea.
according to him, the sad statistics speaks for itself: for 3 years in the Crimea died 200 methadone " buyers ". Effect applied in Ukraine, the practice was that the mortality rate among drug users here in 2 times above, than in Russia. These Data correlate with the statistics of mortality in countries where there is a " Substitution therapy ".
" The data show: up to 90 % bought with taxpayers ' money pills goes direct transfer on the criminal market, where it sells for Afghan heroin. Unfortunately, certain medical staff in the Crimea and employees of the police organization became accomplices of criminal trafficking of narcotic drugs ", said Ivanov.
The head of the Federal drug control service said that By may 30, 2014 in the Crimea smoothly refused from substitution therapy for drug addicts. But 47 thousand tablets of methadone were handed over to the territorial bodies of drug control.
Methadone is a synthetic drug, the effect is stronger than heroin. Ukraine has several years of carrying out the programs of the methadone substitution therapy, which, according to the Federal drug control service, imposed by the West to a number of countries of the former USSR. Russian authorities have long refuse replacement therapy, considering that the legalization of methadone may only be aggravating circumstances with heroin addiction.
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