CURRENT STATE AND POLITICAL TENDENCIES OF DRUG ADDICTION AMONG MINORS AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE PERIOD OF GLOBALIZATION

Abstract

 In the article, the situation, structure and dynamics of drug addiction among minors and young people in the world and in Azerbaijan was analyzed, and  some specific trends of drug addiction, drug and psychotropic substance trafficking among adolescents and young people in the period of globalization were drawn. Statistical data reflecting the level of prevalence among young people were provided. Official statistics reflecting the prevalence of drug addiction among adolescents and young people in Azerbaijan in recent years have been analyzed. In the modern world,  in the context of globalization the scale of non-medical consumption of drugs and psychotropic substances, synthetic cannabinoids, new psychoactive substances, statistical data on the number of deaths due to drug use in some countries (USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, EU countries), reports prepared by international organizations ( World Report on Drugs for 2021 of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2021 “European Report on Drugs” prepared by the European Center for Drug and Drug Abuse) the “Annual Report on the Outcome of the Fight Against Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse” for 2021, prepared by the Permanent Working Group of the State Commission on Combating Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, on the basis of the analysis and generalization of the researches carried out by separate legal scholars (doctors of legal sciences F.M.Javadov, B.S.Zahidov, E.H.Hasanov and others) the characteristic tendencies of drug addiction and drug business were revealed. In order to improve and update the system of prevention and prophylaxis of drug addiction among minors and youth, a set of organizational-technical, socio-psychological, criminological and criminal-legal issues that need a scientific solution have been identified and systematized.