Clinical and ethnocultural features of the drug addiction in Tajikistan

M.N. Malakhov, R.A. Tursunov

The results of clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of 150 patients (100 Tajiks and 50 Slavics) drug addicts were presented. The analysis indicates a significant role of premorbid personality features (more than 90% of patients), psychopathological hereditary (34%) in formation of drug addiction.

Slowly progredient course of the disease and later onset of drug abuse, as well as pshycodeasadaptive episodes (33%) in children occur in the Tajiks. The predominance of married men among the patients Tajiks, who live with their parents (61% and 40% respectively) is also a reflection of the typical features of ethnic culture of Tajiks.

Patients Slavic subpopulation of the first sample of drugs often associated with submissive and pseudocultural motivation against the background of high awareness about the negative consequences of drug abuse (62%) also indicated high progredient course of the disease (duration of drug use up to 5 years - 72%).

Keywords: drug addiction , drug addiction, family history, premorbid personality features.

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