Κατεύθυνση Διαχείριση Κρίσεων και Επειγουσών Καταστάσεων - Ταξιδιωτική και Διεθνής Υγεία: Διαχείριση Κρίσεων και Επειγουσών Καταστάσεων
Library of the School of Health Sciences

2018-10-26

2018

Giannakopoulou Maria-Christina

Ευάγγελος Κωνσταντίνου, Καθηγητής, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Μαργαρίτα Γιαννακοπούλου, Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ
Θεόδωρος Κατσούλας, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Νοσηλευτική, ΕΚΠΑ

Η χρήση φαρμακευτικών παραγόντων καταστολής στην αντιμετώπιση τρομοκρατικών απειλών

Greek

The use of pharmaceutical factors in dealing with terrorist threats.

Background: As terrorism occurs in various new forms which aimed at massively affecting citizens, there is a need of developing new methods on dealing with terrorist threats. Science and technology continue to advance, and the rapidly growing understanding of the human nervous system and other physiological systems suggests that the development of "non-lethal" biochemical factors is possible.
Aim: Determine whether the use of drug suppressants may be capable of responding to terrorist threats, in the light of the hostage crisis management conducted at the Moscow Theater in 2002.
Methodology: Literature search has been conducted on the published and grey literature in PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar.
Results: This particular crisis in Moscow brought to the forefront the use of biochemical suppressive agents and illustrated both the possibilities and the limitations of the use of such means to resolve a hostage crisis. However, the number of deaths has shown that the use of pharmaceutical suppressants in conditions, in which the dose and the exposure environment could not be controlled, resulted in a significant mortality rate among those exposed.
Conclusions: The case of hostage at the Moscow Theater in 2002 was a unique terrorist threat. The plan used to deal with this requires more study and exploration until practices and procedures are in place to prevent and apply biosciences for hostile purposes. The development of biochemical weapons of disability, the risks of which depend on many factors that need to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, require a concerted effort by a variety of scientists and reinforcement of the status regimes and rules enshrined in them.

Health Sciences

Ιnhalted opioids, Calmative agents, Incapacitating agents, Terrorism, Fentanyl hostage, Inhaled fentanyl, Non-lethal weapons

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