Pravni okvir različitih nivoa medicinskog veštačenja u narkomaniji

Abstract

Confronting the drug addiction imply engagement of many subjects and usage of numerous relevant cognition in law, medicine and other sciences. Among the rest, fight against drug addiction imply both preventive and repressive treatment against felony executors associated with psychoactive substances abuse. According to global estimation, 200 million people around the world are drug users, from which 162 million people use marijuana and hashish, and 35 million people use stimulants like amphetamine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and methcathinone. According to statistic data of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) from 2007, in 30 European countries nearly 7 thousand people a year die from drug abuse. There is around 6.000 registered drug addicts in Belgrade, and over 10.000 in Serbia. Estimations of total number of drug addicts in Serbia vary in a range of 70.000 and 100.000 people. The drug addiction problem is actual around the world and it has became one of the biggest problems of our time. Precisely that is one of the key reasons of general public engagement, and law and medicine experts and their cooperation on the same task, their adequate and efficient answer to the drug addiction carrying problems, and which reflect through necessity of specific criminalistic forensic approach. In accordance with this is the distinction of different aspects of medical knowledge implementation which helps getting a better criminalistic forensic answer to drug addiction problems, such as: medical forensic testing and appliance of deterring methods of psychoactive substances consuming, i.e. drug addiction existence; medical forensic testing in case of violent deaths of drug addicts (suicides and murders), addicts' woundment and forensic testing in drug addiction related persons' death cases; medical forensic testing of drug addicts responsibility; medical forensic testing and suggestion of obligatory drug addicts' treatment security measures. Distinction and appreciation of general principles existence and recommendation in work schemes, and in expert method doctrine of all participants in anti-drug addiction program, and in the first place - health workers and other representatives of state department institutions, is also very important. For a success in fight against drug addiction it's necessary to establish an even better cooperation, coordination and close collaboration mechanism, above all among authorized ministries, health institutions, association of citiz and non-government organizations.