Pashinyan has submitted strategic plans, how to prevent drug use

Led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, a meeting was held in the government today, which was presented in 2025-2027 to combat drugs and psychotropic (psychotropic) non-medical circulation. strategic plan and actions arising from it.

In his speech, Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan noted that the strategic program has passed and in fact, it is planned that it will be a single document, where the issues set for all players in the field will be summed up.

Before addressing the strategic program, details were presented in the world and the statistical data on drug and psychotropic drugs in Armenia. It was also emphasized that the strategic plan allows the issue to be more comprehensive, as it also includes the component of public health.

Thus, the strategic program development stages, goals, which are the prevention of drug and psychotropic substances, the fight against drug trafficking, providing medical care, social-psychological support, reintegration and public health. Details were made on the steps taken to the above-mentioned goals. According to it, the population's awareness is planned to establish an administrative database on drugs or illegal circulation by improving the legislative framework for legal circulation for illegal drug users.

Within the framework of the fight against drug trafficking, it is planned to prevent illegal drug imports, increasing the efficiency of operative-investigative activities, and the development of drug trafficking through the Internet, the development of the competent authorities and organizations, strengthening cooperation.

Provides for a social-psychological rehabilitation services: Provision of treatment, restoration and damage reduction services, public health, stable rehabilitation management and social integration.

The participants of the meeting exchanged views on certain points of the program, presented their observations and proposals on strategy goals, their implementation.

Summing up the discussion, the Prime Minister considered important what political guidance to the relevant bodies is given. According to Nikol Pashinyan, the main task of the strategy should be to answer a question where the direction of the main blow is, import, production, distribution or consumption. "I think that the direction of our strike should be imports and production," said the Prime Minister and added that the targets should be clarified and all policies should be adjusted in accordance with this logic. The Prime Minister also highlighted the importance of drugs according to the danger and instructed to work in these directions.