Azerbaijan publicizes number of registered drug addicts

  16 January 2016    Read: 1226
Azerbaijan publicizes number of registered drug addicts
Over 28,000 drug addicts registered in Azerbaijan, the State Commission on Combating Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking under the Interior Ministry told its 2015 report.
According to the report, over 20,000 addicts use drugs of opioid group and 11,000 – drugs of cannabinoid group. More than 11,000 drug addicts are registered in Baku.

Last year’s police operations revealed 2,935 drug-related crimes. Of them, 786 (26.7 percent) facts of crime were related to illegal drug trafficking, 1,940 fact (66 percent) – the illegal purchase and possession of drugs without intent to sell, 193 facts (6.5 percent) – the illicit cultivation of narcotic plants and 16 facts (0.5) percent – other drug-related crimes.

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