Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- At the seventh plenary meeting of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, the Law "On the prevention and treatment of narcological diseases" was considered.

The law is important, first of all, because it is aimed at eliminating the vices of human behavior, such as alcoholism, drug addiction or substance abuse, which sometimes occur in public life, are alien to our nature and negatively affect the healthy development of our youth.

The law stipulates a complex of social, educational and medical and psychological measures aimed at identifying and eliminating the causes and conditions that contribute to the spread and non-medical use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol abuse, and preventing the development of their negative personal, social and medical consequences.

It is envisaged that citizens’ self-government bodies provide assistance to preventive inspectors of internal affairs bodies in the implementation of preventive registration of persons suffering from drug addiction diseases, including those prone to antisocial behavior.

The Law states that the decision to send a person suffering from a narcological disease for compulsory treatment is made in his presence within twenty days by the court at his place of residence or at the location of the narcological institution.

It is legally stipulated that local authorities and labor bodies promote the employment of persons suffering from drug addiction diseases and their social adaptation.

According to the law, the state guarantees to persons suffering from narcological diseases consultative and diagnostic, medical, psychoprophylactic, rehabilitation, social assistance in outpatient and inpatient conditions.

It is established that narcological dispensaries are organized in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regions, the city of Tashkent, as well as large cities of the country as independent medical and preventive institutions of the republican, regional, city or inter-district level. At the same time, drug treatment on an outpatient basis is provided by drug treatment rooms organized in the structure of central district (city) multidisciplinary polyclinics.

The members of the Senate decided to approve this Law.