Ukraine, as
the whole civilized world, should change the paradigm of the state drug policy,
Michel Kazatchkine, the United Nations secretary general’s special envoy for
HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, has said.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy insists on
changing the paradigm: from the repressive paradigm to the priority of
healthcare, he said at the Drugpolicy Talk held in Kyiv on March 3.
This could be a good signal to international society
that the Health Ministry controls drugs turnover in Ukraine and the change of
the paradigm should not be only on paper, this should mean redirecting of a
large sum of funds spent on the ineffective repressive machine to the creation
of the treatment and care system, he said.
Kazatchkine pointed at the inefficiency of fighting
drug traffic, as well as transmission of HIV/AIDS based on repressions and
restricting access to drug containing products. Most of the countries recognize
this.
He said that at the special session of the United
Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem in April the matters of
easing access to painkillers, mitigating the prosecution of people who use
drugs and minor offenders who sold drugs and toughening the prosecution of 'big
fishes' in drug trafficking, as well as the matters of the transfer of the drug
market to the control of the state.
Acting Chair of the State Service of Ukraine for Drug
Control Oleh Dzysiak said that supervision over illegal and legal drug turnover
should be divided in the country.
He also said that the state should conduct the
balanced policy towards stimulation of the recovery of the cannabis and poppy
planting sector.
"Our farmers cannot use the potential and
opportunities of the ratified international conventions that allow growing
these plants for the scientific and medical purposes. I hear the problems with
law enforcement agencies from Ukrainian scientists," he said.
He said that it is impossible to transfer issues
linked to narcotic drug turnover to the field of Health Ministry's
responsibility.
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