After Yerevan, Lori is the second to apply “Methadone substitute treatment” project to stabilize the state of addicts and to finally cure them.
Doctor Hovhannes Amirkhanyan describes what methadone is: “Methadone is a pure synthetic drug, when taking it the addicts don’t feel the necessity of finding, creating narcotic for 24-36 hours.” Briefly to say, this process can be called narcotic instead of narcotic.” According to him this is an effective method, as it doesn’t destroy the organism.
Out 60 addicts, the 14 are treated by this method. The chief psychiatrist of the region,n Gayane Qalantaryan said that there is no obligatory treatment for addicts, everything is done according to their will. Amirkhanyan said” “The state of those, who come later, is more difficult, because the treatment of addicts of the region is free of charge, but the treatment of, for example, hepatitis C is 14-15 thousand dollars.”
Shushanna Grigoryan, Lori region correspondent