Abstract

Exchange visits with Soviet colleagues are being encouraged. I recently had the opportunity of spending two weeks visiting services for drug misusers in the Soviet Union with two colleagues, a visit sponsored by the British Council as a UK/USSR collaborative project. We spent most of our time in Leningrad and the surrounding region, and a short time in Moscow. Since then a party of Russian specialists has visited the Wessex Region to see drug and alcohol services.

Highlights

  • One of the difficulties in getting any real idea of the extent of drug addiction in the Soviet Union is that the law requires addicts to be officially registered with implications that include the possibility of enforced treatment and imprisonment

  • Most of the narcologists are doctors, there are a small number of specialist psy chologists working in the field

  • Training for narcology is in the form of short training courses at postgraduate medical institutes, lasting from a few weeks up to three months

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Introduction

One of the difficulties in getting any real idea of the extent of drug addiction in the Soviet Union is that the law requires addicts to be officially registered with implications that include the possibility of enforced treatment and imprisonment. The specialism of substance abuse, has been developed as a separate discipline in the Soviet Union over the past ten years. The Leningrad Post graduate Medical Institute (the first such establish ment in the world created expressly for the training of postgraduate doctors) only set up a department for the training of narcologists in 1989.

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