Abstract

The cases of drug addiction, especially those that generate dependency and are at the origin of criminal behaviors, have forced the government to develop and later to implement specific policies to fight against drug addiction which combines medical care, psychological support and social integration of drug addicts. The emergence and subsequent development of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, especially among addicts who inject drugs have supposed an adaptation of these policies to serve the patients, to find medicaments and treatments and to educate society about the risks of contamination and the need to prevent infection