The Service will control the possible use of drugs by soldiers
Almost weekly, the main military investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports on the sentences issued to the military for drug trafficking. Moreover, the situation with army drug addiction became so alarming that the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu gave instructions to create a completely new structure, whose task would be to assess the mental state of the personnel.
The name of this structure is the Service for the Control of Potential Use of Drugs by Military Forces (SLEH). The start of her work - December 1 of this year - coincided with the start of a new school year in the army and on navy. This service will have to check cadets, soldiers, warrant officers and officers for drug use regularly, especially before they take up combat duty and outfits. And sometimes the checks will be sudden.
The military department frankly admitted that this was an acute problem for the army. Statistics show that the number of drug offenses in the military continues to grow. Moreover, drug abuse is observed among all categories of personnel. According to military investigators, this evil is especially struck by ensigns, midshipmen and cadets of military schools. There, the number of drug addicts in uniform reaches over 20 percent of the total number of personnel. That is, every fifth future officer tried illegal drugs.
For example, recently at a military training ground in Kyakhta, military counterintelligence and drug police revealed 10 servicemen who had stored drugs in large quantities. A conscription soldier in the Altai Territory created a network of drug distribution on the principle of family contracting. His bride and parents were involved in this activity. In the Sverdlovsk region, in one of the recently disbanded military units, the drug police discovered a laboratory for the production of synthetic potions. In Vladivostok, with a large party of synthetics, the captain, the platoon commander, was detained. In the Murmansk region, the castle platoon was convicted, who “healed” his hangover and his colleagues with the help of heroin. And at one of the landfills in Primorye, a well-groomed plantation of wild hemp was discovered by chance.
According to the chief psychiatrist of the Defense Ministry, Professor Vladislav Shamrey, the basis for the creation of a new army service was the order of the head of the defense ministry of defense "On urgent measures to counter drug use and illicit trafficking in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation." At the board meeting of the Ministry of Defense, which took place on July 31 in St. Petersburg, Shoigu instructed that all military personnel “from soldier to commander” go through the service created for the possible use of drugs.
As our source in the military department said, the newly created anti-drug service has not yet provided for the corresponding new full-time positions. Now in each military unit there are working groups to counter drug abuse and illicit trafficking, which will be headed by deputy commanders for work with personnel. It is possible that posts of doctors specializing in the prevention of drug addiction and a cure for this deadly passion will subsequently be introduced.
The first barrier to drug addicts is created in the military registration and enlistment offices and the military-medical commission for working with draftees. Soldiers with signs of drug intoxication are ordered to be immediately removed from service and sent for medical examination. Most likely, they are commissioned, and those who are caught in the distribution of drugs will be judged.
Military doctors are now preparing special manuals for commanders, which explain how to prevent and identify signs of the use of prohibited substances among military personnel. In particular, these are personality disorders characterized by delusions, memory loss, hallucinations, and the like.
SKVUVN representatives will be obliged to conduct regular classes with officers and sergeants "on the early detection of cases of drug use, as well as countering their illegal distribution." The main military medical administration of the mine defense team must equip the medical units with special equipment with equipment for the rapid testing of military personnel for drugs. However, according to the Chief Medical Officer, Major General of the Medical Service Alexander Fisun, although the order of the Ministry of Defense says that additional expenses of the federal budget will not be needed, but to create a viable system for identifying drug addicts in the army, it will be necessary to purchase expensive equipment and test systems . And to the question of journalists whether these so voluminous financial expenses are envisaged in the budget, the general answered vaguely.
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