Summary:
The object of this thesis is the quotation, examination and analysis of all the partial settlements that domestic legal order predicts (mainly via the law 4139/2013) concerning the drug user’s treatment, who, either because of the use, which still is predicted as a crime, or because of other crimes that he commits due to and in the limits of this use, comes up against the criminal law, and actually with its harsh view. As far as the domestic law is concerned, the key factor for its approach is the element of “addiction”, the existence of which determines the user’s treatment itself. All the special law predictions are being emphasized and analyzed, its negative points are pointed out and its positive elements and innovations are being brought out. Moreover, there is a quotation and analysis of all the measures predicted in the domestic law, with which the legislator aims to the user’s therapy and mainly the therapy of the addicted one˙ in that way he is now anymore recognized as a patient and the addiction as an illness. In the limits of this analysis and because of it, another object which is being examined, is whether and to what extent therapy is more effective than the punishment as far as the handling of the central object is concerned, that of the suppression of the diffusion of drugs’ usement. Finally, another theme directly combined with the central one comes also under discussion, that of the necessity or not of the criminalization of drugs’ usement, and to what extent it can co-ordinate with the principles themselves of the Criminal Law.
Keywords:
drugs, usement, addiction, legal consequences, therapy versus punishment, decriminalization
