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INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON DRUG PREVENTION HELD IN OSIJEK

OSIJEK OSIJEK, Oct 7 (Hina) - A two-day seminar on the prevention of drug abuse was held in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek on Thursday. There are 13,000 registered drug addicts, of whom 12,000 are heroine addicts, in Croatia. Since 1990 the number of drug addicts has increased by 300 percent, the president of the Government Commission for the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Slavko Sakoman, said at the seminar, entitled "Youth Leisure Time - With the Youth Against Drug Addiction." Sakoman pointed to the insufficient financial support of the state for projects from the National programme on drug abuse prevention. It is expected that between 1,000 and 1,200 drug addicts will seek medical treatment this year, Sakoman said, adding another problem was that lately the interest in drug consumption had increased among young people. What slightly alleviates this problem is the fact that the number of addicts seeking help from loca
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON DRUG PREVENTION HELD IN OSIJEK OSIJEK, Oct 7 (Hina) - A two-day seminar on the prevention of drug abuse was held in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek on Thursday. There are 13,000 registered drug addicts, of whom 12,000 are heroine addicts, in Croatia. Since 1990 the number of drug addicts has increased by 300 percent, the president of the Government Commission for the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Slavko Sakoman, said at the seminar, entitled "Youth Leisure Time - With the Youth Against Drug Addiction." Sakoman pointed to the insufficient financial support of the state for projects from the National programme on drug abuse prevention. It is expected that between 1,000 and 1,200 drug addicts will seek medical treatment this year, Sakoman said, adding another problem was that lately the interest in drug consumption had increased among young people. What slightly alleviates this problem is the fact that the number of addicts seeking help from local drug prevention centres is on the increase and that those are mostly young people with short drug experience, Sakoman said. The number of drug addicts in relation to the overall population is the highest in Zadar, which is followed by Split, Pula, Sibenik and Zagreb. Stressing the importance of drug prevention, Sakoman pointed to another problem in the treatment of drug addicts - lack of room in rehabilitation centres given the high number of drug addicts. Sakoman also criticised changes to the Penal Law envisaging lighter sentences for persons possessing small quantities of drugs and treating the possession of small quantities as an offence and not a criminal act. He objects that the changes fail to define what can be regarded a small quantity of drugs. The Osijek meeting was organised by the Osijek city authorities and the international foundation Hanns-Seidel from Bavaria. A representative for the foundation, Angela Adamovich, said the foundation was active in 70 countries and stressed the importance of transferring the debate about drug prevention into the parliament. Igor Krampac from Maribor spoke about Slovenia's experience in fighting drug abuse and the social rehabilitation of occasional drug addicts. Vesna Bilandzic, Deputy State Prosecutor, presented data from the Ministry of Justice which point to an increase in the number of drug addicts among the prison population. Last year, 1,221 drug addicts passed through the prison system. "According to the annual report of the County State Prosecutor's Office in Osijek, drug abuse accounted for 36.58 percent of all criminal acts committed by persons of age and it is the most dominant form of crime," Bilandzic said. Participating in the meeting were also internationally recognised experts on drug prevention, Pavel Csader and Jan Balla from Slovakia and Martin Sijes from the Netherlands. (hina) rml

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