Društveni faktori nastanka i širenja zavisnosti od psihoaktivne supstance krokodil na prostoru bivšeg Sovjetskog Saveza
Social Factors That Contributed To The Evolvement And Spreading Of Crocodile addiction At Area Of Former Soviet States

Summary/Abstract: This text discusses the dezomorphine – a drug better known as crocodile. Use of this home made substance has reached epidemic range since 1990’s in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Our analysis deals with this particular space. That is, considering the modest expert literature regarding the socio-demographic features of consumers, occurrence pervasiveness and its etiology, we have found data from the countries born after the Soviet Russia breakdown, which have obviously been the hardest hit by it. The first aim of our analyses was to: provide the summary of expert findings about the pervasiveness, crocodile consumers and assumptions regarding the etiology. The second aim aroused from the first: we tried to discuss and illustrate potential ethological factors connected with crocodile use initiation. Two sociological theories have framed the theoretical outline: theory of dislocation and critical criminology theory, which emphasize the significance of socalled social breakdown – unforeseen and large social changes that initiated deviant behavior, including addiction. Apart from summary of experts analysis of crocodile we have offered official statistics about social factors seen to have important role in development and speeding of this particular drug addiction. The findings of this, conditionally called, meta analysis are contradictory for large part depends on methodological difficulties and lack of adequate information. Summed up the findings point to the need for better methodological design and extended crocodile addiction research with attention drown to social context and cultural features of the countries emerged after the former Soviet Union breakdown.

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