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The role of religious communities in countering drug abuse

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In the authors’ opinion, religion and confessional affiliation can and must act as a deterrent to taking psychoactive substances and thus become a significant resource in preventing various deviant behaviors. The role of religious institutions in drug interdiction is based on an analysis of special literature and expert opinions.

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  1. M. E. Pozdnyakova
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Original Russian Text © M.E. Pozdnyakova, V.V. Moiseeva, 2008, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2008, Vol. 78, No. 7, pp. 616–623.

The authors work at the RAS Institute of Sociology. Margarita Efimovna Pozdnyakova, Cand. Sci. (Philos.), is head of the deviant behavior sector. Viktoriya Vladimirovna Moiseeva is a junior research fellow in this sector.

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Pozdnyakova, M.E., Moiseeva, V.V. The role of religious communities in countering drug abuse. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 78, 390–396 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331608040102

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