Introduction (A. M. Bandurka)

Part I. Kharkiv Region (Ukraine): Dynamics and sociocultural mechanisms of drug spread

Chapter 1. Quantitative measurement of the process of drug spread (I. P. Rushchenko)

Chapter 2. Sociocultural aspects of drug addiction: qualitative analysis of the problem (Y. A. Svezhentseva)

Chapter 3. Medical and law statistics: dynamics and epidemic situation analysis and forecast

• Methods of statistic observation and data use for sociological analysis of the problem (V. A. Sobolev)
• Epidemiological situation in drug spread in Ukraine and Kharkov region (V. N. Kuzminov)
• Analysis and forecasting of narcological statistics in Ukraine and in Kharkov region (S. V. Yakovlev, Y. V. Gnusov)

Chapter 4. Drug situation from experts’ point of view

• History and today: evaluation of experts-narcologists (A. N. Postupnoy)
• Illegal drug turnover in Kharkiv region: the opinion of lawyers (S. B. Reshetnjak)

Chapter 5. Political, legal and methodological basis of prevention of addictive behavior in Ukraine and Kharkiv region (A. N. Yarmish, V. A. Sobolev, A. A. Serdyuk)

Part II. Saxony (Germany): drug spread and prevention problems (S. Sting, M. Wolff, C. Zippe)

Part III. Valencia community (Spain): new in the drug dependence treatment (A. Lopes-Blasco, F. P. Ferrando)

About the authors of the book