60TH JUBILEE SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS: SEMINARS ON DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION SUPPORTED BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
In the 60th Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, held in Vienna on March 13-17, 2017, the Russian Federation, together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, have conducted two joint events entirely devoted to presenting Russia’s experience in preventing the use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for non-medical purposes. The reports were prepared by specialists of the leading specialized scientific institutions of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, which presented to the international audience systemic approaches currently implemented by Russia’s addiction medicine to reduce the demand for drugs in terms of prevention and treatment. These events demonstrated the country’s approaches to consistent implementation of the outcome document of the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs 2016.