Fatal Red Poppies Synopsis

How to help drug addicts and confront the illegal drug trade in Russia, Great Britain, Holland, the USA, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, India, China and Australia? This book is about the World Wide experience of Drug Addiction treatment and the fight against the illegal drug trade.

The readers will learn about drug related situations in all those and many other countries which doctor had visited. The notes contain a mass of first hand information.The author has met with the victims of drug abuse, their doctors, representatives of Police, security and customs services, Tasmanian aborigines, Tibetan mages and leader of different religions faiths (Christians,Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, and others). All of them are worried about how to stop global drug addiction, although different ways are offered.

The author has his own ideas about what out of the world wide experience could be useful to apply today for the sake of individual and the public in general. This book also contains some autobiographical elements. The author recalls how he established the first private sector Drug and Alcohol Abuse Center in the former Soviet Union, cites patient's case notes, and writes about the vexed and usually disputable, problems of modern drug abuse and laws.

The interested reader will find a wide range of sources and comments in the notes. This book is addressed to the general public -those who would like to picture with what practical experience in this field, our generation has stepped in to the new century -everybody who is worried about the drugs threat, who has faced it in his/her family, among his friends, at work, who helps drug addicts, or in bounden duty fights against the drug trade.

In August 2006 Ukrainian version of the book Fatal Red Poppies was published by the 'Dulibe' Publishing House.

The presentation and signing of the book took place in Kiev, September 2006. The copies of the book were handed to the President of Ukraine Mr. Kuchma, Universities and low enforcement authorities.