No rehab for Russia's drug addicts

More than 70,000 people die each year in Russia from drug abuse, about 30,000 of them from heroin
The Moscow Times (Russia)
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

As the world marks the United Nations' International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, millions of drug addicts in Russia have nowhere to go for treatment, and specialists are in despair over the lack of progress in the country's rehabilitation system. The Federal Drug Control Service, or FSKN, recently announced plans to create a system of communes to treat drug addicts, but drug counselors dismiss such statements as empty promises.