CLINICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF HEROIN ADDICTION: MODERN STATE OF ISSUE

Abstract

The article provides a brief overview of the literature, which deals with the issues of heroin addiction, its history, prevalence, statistics, clinical characteristics, diagnostics, prevention and countermeasures, as well as programs aimed at social rehabilitation and harm reduction from injecting drug use. Issues such as physiological foundations and features of disease and remission formation, withdrawal, motivational attitudes of drug users, structure users of narcotic substances, the impact of pre-morbid features, socio-demographic, clinical-dynamic, regional and gender aspects of heroin addiction, and also existing approaches to therapeutic and preventive measures are considered in narcology. Medical and social consequences expressed in the form of the spread of hemo-contact infections, such as HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis; risky behavior and its impact on the growth of sexually transmitted infections; reducing and completely losing social status; suicide-aggressive actions have been studied. The analysis of data on the study of the prognostic value of the socio-demographic and clinical-dynamic characteristics of heroin addiction and its effect is provided on the outcome of the disease.

Keywords

• drugs
• drug addiction
• heroin addiction
• opioids
• addiction treatment.