490 PEOPLE IN ARMENIA APPLY FOR TREATMENT FROM DRUG ADDICTION IN 2008
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
22.07.2009 16:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Over the past 7 years, the number of people applied
for treatment in Drug addiction Center of the RA Ministry of Health
grows by 100 per cent every year and the number of drug addicts
increases by 10 percent in Armenia.
If in 2001 7 people applied for treatment from drug addiction, then
in 2008 the number reached 490, Petros Semerdjyan, head of the Drug
addiction Center of the RA Ministry of Health told a press conference
in Yerevan today.
"Among the countries of the region Armenia has the most encouraging
data. We have registered 1141 drug users, while the number of drug
addicts reaches 28 thousand in Azerbaijan, 45 thousand in Georgia and
to a terrible figure of 3.5 million in Iran, " Petros Semerdjyan said.
"In our country the treatment from drug addiction is free, it can
last between 10 days to 6 months, but addiction can be obtained with
one intravenous, " Petros Semerdjyan said.
He also assured that the addiction is not explained by mentality.