Modern Problems of Combating Juvenile Substance Abuse

The article is devoted to the consideration of one of the most pressing problems of our time – the fight against the use (inhalation) of non-narcotic intoxicating substances (sniffing) by minors. This harmful phenomenon is becoming more widespread among minors in all regions of the Russian Federation, causing irreparable harm to the life and health of children.

The authors analyzed statistical information on crimes committed by minors in a state of toxic intoxication, paid attention to the consideration of some urgent problems of the lack of legislative regulation of the activities of combating the use of non-narcotic intoxicating substances by minors.