Justification of Calculation of Illegal Drug Consumption

Abstract

The drug situation monitoring system in Russia uses data on the number of drugs withdrawn from circulation in a weight indicator. However, this does not reflect the real extent of the danger, since differences in the activity of substances and population density of different administrative districts are not taken into account. Based on the analysis of statistical data, a methodology for calculating the prevalence of drugs based on the determination of conventional doses that are multiples of the size of the narcotic drugs, determining the onset of criminal liability and determining their prevalence in the territory of the administrative district per 100,000 population is proposed. Keywords: Narcotic drugs; Methodology for calculating seized psychoactive substances; Drug situation; Drug monitoring