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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Bioethical differences between drug addiction treatment professionals inside and outside the Russian Federation Vladimir D Mendelevich | HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL Bioethical differences between drug addiction treatment professionals inside and outside the Russian Federation Mendelevich Mendelevich Harm Reduction Journal 2011 8 15 http content 8 1 15 10 June 2011 BioMed Central Mendelevich Harm Reduction Journal 2011 8 15 http content 8 1 15 HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL RESEARCH Open Access Bioethical differences between drug addiction treatment professionals inside and outside the Russian Federation Vladimir D Mendelevich Abstract This article provides an overview of a sociological study of the views of 338 drug addiction treatment professionals. A comparison is drawn between the bioethical approaches of Russian and foreign experts from 18 countries. It is concluded that the bioethical priorities of Russian and foreign experts differ significantly. Differences involve attitudes toward confidentiality informed consent compulsory treatment opioid agonist therapy mandatory testing of students for psychoactive substances the prevention of mental patients from having children harm reduction programs needle and syringe exchange euthanasia and abortion. It is proposed that the cardinal dissimilarity between models for providing drug treatment in the Russian Federation versus the majority of the countries of the world stems from differing bioethical attitudes among drug addiction treatment experts. Introduction Russian and international narcology addiction medicine began to develop along divergent paths during the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed Russian narcology has ceased to be a part of international narcology. There are cardinal differences in current scientific views on the nature of dependency its neurobiological or psychopathological bases and on standards of therapy and how best to organize narcolo-gical care 1-9 . In 1976 Soviet narcology cut the umbilical cord connecting it with psychiatry and began to be seen as an independent .