The morbidity of drug addiction and its prevalence in the Kostroma region in 2005-2014

Abstract

During last ten years, prevalence of drug addiction in the Kostroma region increased up to 58.2% against the background of decreasing of this indicator up to 7.2% on national level. At that, primary morbidity decreased up to 46.8%. The level of primary drug morbidity in the Kostroma region is traditionally lower than in the Russian Federation (up to 2.5 times) and in the Central federal okrug (up to 2.9 times). The prognostic values of indicator of primarily registered cases of drug addiction in the region are rather optimistic against the background of demonstrated neat tendency to decreasing.