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Kazakh government approves anti-drug program for 2006-2008

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   Kazakh government approves anti-drug program for 2006-2008
  
   By Alexander Zelichenko*, TCA contributor
  
   ALMATY (TCA). The Kazakh government will spend 2.897 billion tenge
   (about $25 million) on an extensive two-year program to counteract the
   country's growing drug problem. .
  
   The program's approval was preceded by questioning 12,000 Kazakh
   citizens from all regions of the country, 30.3 percent of whom consider drug
   use and drug business one of the most serious problems facing
   Kazakhstan today.
  
   In 2001-2005, Kazakhstan registered 62,519 drug-related crimes and
   22,021 cases of drug sale. Police seized 104.5 tons of drugs, including
   over two tons of heroin. In 2005 alone, police seized almost 24 tons of
   drugs, including 625 kilograms of heroin.
  
   The number of drug users in Kazakhstan has increased 4.5 times since
   1991 (the collapse of the Soviet Union). At the beginning of this year,
   the country's official statistics reported 53,577 drug users, but the
   Health Ministry believes that their true number exceeds 200,000, or 1.3
   percent of the country's population and 2.06 percent of all able-bodied
   citizens. Kazakh drug users are increasingly switching from
   traditional marijuana and hashish to more expensive and dangerous heavy drugs,
   such as opium and heroin.
  
   The anti-drug program aims at further improving anti-drug legislation,
   popularizing a drug-free and healthy lifestyle among Kazakhstan
   citizens, and developing an effective narcological aid system.
  
   The program also plans to develop technologies for the prevention,
   diagnosis, treatment, and social rehabilitation of drug users.
  
   The program will also address the problem of drug production.
   Thousands of hectares of land in Kazakhstan are covered with wild hemp, a raw
   material for the production of high-quality hashish and marijuana.
   These wild plantations attract hundreds of hemp collectors from all over
   Kazakhstan and neighboring countries, who are often engaged in criminal
   activities.
  
   In recent years the Chui Valley, shared by southern Kazakhstan and
   northern Kyrgyzstan, has seen a restoration of factories processing wild
   hemp. The program also provides for improving technologies to process
   drug-containing plants for producing medical products.
  
   Given that Kazakhstan is a transit country for Afghan drugs, the
   program will strengthen control along the whole length of the Kazakh border,
   as well as increase international cooperation in fighting drug
   trafficking.
  
   Concerns, however, have been raised about the program. Part of the
   program is dedicated to an "increased exposure and registration of drug
   users," which might give rise to groundless persecution of drug users
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