Open AccessGENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCES IN THE FIELD OF DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES’ TRAFFICKING
Author(s) -
Boris Zykin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
administrative and criminal justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2592-8422
pISSN - 1407-2971
DOI - 10.17770/acj.v3i88.4314
Subject(s) - narcotic drugs , addiction , business , psychotropic drug , narcotic , criminology , state (computer science) , field (mathematics) , drug , medicine , political science , psychiatry , psychology , computer science , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
Drug addiction is an extremely acute social problem and it attracts the attention of both legal scholars and practitioners. This is due to the fact that the improvement of the measures’ system aimed at preventing and stopping the spread of the drugs and psychotropic substances requires the joint efforts of specialists in various fields.Despite a slight decrease in crime rates, a study of the current state of the administrative and legal measures’ application aimed at preventing and stopping the unauthorized distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances shows that these measures do not yet sufficiently provide solutions for increasing the activity and effectiveness of the struggle against drug addiction, prevention and elimination of this phenomenon’s socially dangerous consequences.The struggle against drug abuse by administrative and legal measures needs to be improved and must correspond to the prevailing socio-economic conditions. In this regard, the application of administrative and legal measures aimed at preventing and stopping the spread of drugs and psychotropic substances in our country requires further theoretical study of issues related to their concept, purpose and implementation.