Means of Administrative Control in the Fight Against Drug Phenomenon

The phenomenon of drugs is one of the most serious social problems facing society at present, as it has had security, health, and economic dimensions, so the state needed to confront this phenomenon in all possible ways. Iraqi legislation has a great and prominent role in combating the phenomenon of drugs and psychotropic substances by granting the administrative control authorities many therapeutic, preventive, and medical means and activating them to reduce the such phenomenon. The subject of administrative control methods to combat the drug phenomenon is of great importance because it contains preventive control methods to avoid or reduce the damage caused by drugs before they occur, unlike the criminal therapeutic methods that are after the occurrence of the crime. Moreover, highlights the significance of rehabilitative and therapeutic medical facilities in treating and helping addicts, as well as focuses attention on the role of the administrative means of the administrative control authorities in fighting the phenomenon of drugs and some of the applications that the control authorities worked with as curative or preventive means to reduce this phenomenon, such as establishing special centers for the treatment of addicts or special rehabilitation centers to overcome the obstacle of addiction, Therefore, we divided the subject into two sections, the first one is for the definition of drugs and their types, and the second for the preventive, curative and medical administrative control methods in the face of the phenomenon.