| Age | % |
|---|---|
| People less than 20 years old | 1.16 % |
| People between 20 and 30 years old | 72.54 % |
| People older than 30 years old | 26.30 % |
| Sex | % |
|---|---|
| MEN | 86.03 % |
| WOMEN | 13.97 % |
| Period | In RETO |
|---|---|
| Between 1 and 15 days | 4.52 % |
| Between 15 days and 3 months | 12.71 % |
| Between 3 and 9 months | 21.47 % |
| Between 9 months and 1.5 year | 18.93 % |
| After 1.5 year | 42.37 % |
The column "In RETO" has data about the duration of time of people who are passing the program. You can see in the table the high percent of people who live in the centre since they have completed the program (1.5 year). This is sign of changed purposes in that people. They got help and the freedom to live without drugs and decided to help the other drug addicted. Now they do good acts to others and don't live for themselves only.
| Period | Went |
|---|---|
| Between 1 and 15 days | 23.32 % |
| Between 15 days and 3 months | 25.72 % |
| Between 3 and 9 months | 27.38 % |
| Between 9 months and 1.5 year | 15.49 % |
| After 1.5 year | 8.09 % |
Any man enters into our center with his own desire. He must understand he is drug addicted and cannot become free by his forces or another kind. We recommend 1.5 year for rehabilitation. A rehabilitating man lives in the centre with his own desire, therefore one may break to pass the program at any stage.
The column "went" has data about dwelted time in the centre of the people breaked or completed the program.
In the middle of 2002 we sent letters to guys and girls gone before Jan 01, 2002 to know how they live. Total letters were 726. 121 replies (16,67%) were receipted.
67 (55.37%) persons live without using drugs, 6 (4.96%) persons are died becase of different reasons, 48 persons (39.67%) use drugs including 37 ones (30,58%) who asked and were accepted to rehabilitate once more.
THERE ARE MORE 4 MILLIONS OF DRUG ADDICTS IN RUSSIA
For last 5 years a number of drug addicted increased at 3.5 times (more 4 millions of persons now). Only 500 000 of them are registered in specialized medical clinics. Since 1996 a quantity of the people having dangerous sickness doubles every year (200 000 persons now).
(NARKOTIKI.RU 08/01/2003)
According to the most conservative estimates, the quantity of the people using drugs, at us from the end 80 up to the middle 90, till 2000 has increased almost in 15 times. And by different calculations, drugs use up to 6 million person in Russia - not on a constant basis, but anyhow touch drugs, have with them any business, distribute them and so on, about 6 million, 4 million - steady figure, on the account in Ministry of Health 340 thousand person consists nearby. But, according to Ministry of Health, the latent part of addicts is much more - up to 1 800 thousand person.
The Internet-conference of the President of the Russian Federation V.V.Putin, July 2006