Justification of Calculation of Illegal Drug Consumption

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia MD, Chief Specialist Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Diagnostics, Center for Psychophysiological Diagnostics, Central Medical Unit, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Moscow, Russia Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Medical Support of Internal Affairs Bodies Activities, All-Russian Institute for Advanced Studies, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Moscow, Russia


Copyright:
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright © 2019; Andrey Soloviev Determining the extent of the illicit distribution and consumption of narcotic drugs is one of the goals of monitoring the drug situation [5]. Among the sources of information about the extent of their proliferation appear and information about illegal traffic seizure of psychoactive substances (PAS) at the moment of criminal case [3]. The annual reports of the Russian State Anti-Narcotics Committee provide data on the weight of seized surfactants, while the degree of danger of individual drugs is not reflected [2]. As a result of this approach, an opinion is formed that the most common are the drugs of the cannabis group, which do not represent a significant social danger. In addition, differences in population in administrative districts are not taken into Page: 28 www.raftpubs.com account. Thus, the modernization of methodological approaches to assessing the illegal distribution and consumption of surfactants is required, as, for example, this has already been proposed when taking into account the extent of alcohol-attributive mortality [6].
The purpose of the study is to justify the use of the methodology for calculating the amount of surfactants seized to determine the extent of their illegal distribution and consumption.

Materials and Research Methods:
Analyzed special forms of interagency statistical reporting for 2015-2018 in the Russian Federation (RF). The data were converted into conventional doses in accordance with the established sizes of surfactants that determine the onset of criminal liability. Prevalence rates were calculated per 100,000 administrative district populations. St atistical processing of the research results was carried out using the SPSS 22.0 program. The search for linear relationships between the two features was carried out using the Pearson correlation coefficient.
The results of the study: For the period 2015-2018, Russian law enforcement authorities withdrawn from circulation more than 100 000 kg of PAS (Table. 1). For the recalculation, we used the parameters of the PAS size, which are minimal for the formation of the offense and the onset of criminal liability (Table 2) [4].   Regional differences are noted, for example, a significant increase in the prevalence of amphetamines and a sharp decrease in synthetic cannabinoids in the Central Administrative District of RF, as well as high levels of spice prevalence, while opiates are insignificant, in the Far Eastern District. It should be noted that in both administrative districts, cocaine prevalence levels in recent years are close to zero.
Pearson's correlation coefficients for the structure of the prevalence of surfactants by administrative districts reveal the presence of significant differences in the indicators of the Far Eastern, North Caucasian and North-Western districts compared with the figures for RF as a whole, which, apparently, is determined by both regional characteristics of preferred consumption and the characteristics of the work of special services (Table 5). Page: 31 www.raftpubs.com Changing the structure of the withdrawn PAS when switching from measurement of absolute weight on prevalence rates in conventional doses per 100 000 population, for RF and the Central District are shown in (Figures 1-2).