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Harm Reduction Efforts"As indicated above, in recent years, the Government has announced the initiation of various programmes for expanding drug abuse preventive activities and treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers. Largely due to the lack of resources, there have, in fact, been very few concrete actions in this field. There are almost no preventive education programmes aimed at informing the general public about the problems of illicit drugs. Targeted preventive programmes for high-risk groups, such as the unemployed and the youth, have been limited primarily to some small-scale, HIV/AIDS-related, activities undertaken by NGOs. The Ministry of Education has been attempting to develop some drug abuse preventive education programmes for the schools and has asked for some assistance from UNODC."Source:
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, "County Profile: Russian Federation" (Moscow, Russia: UNODC Regional Office, Russian Federation, 2003) p. 33. |