FIELD: medicine, narcology.
SUBSTANCE: it is necessary to observe anamnesis, carry out neurological, psychiatric, psychological and electroencephalographic trials and register cognitive induced potentials. While gathering anamnesis one should detect the presence of heredity burden, birth traumas, early organic lesions of central nervous system (CNS); in the course of neurological trial - the presence of focal neurological symptomatics, epilepsy or neuroinfections or cranio-cerebral traumas; at psychiatric trial - the presence of psychopathies, psychic diseases, evaluation of social environment; at psychological trial - hyperthymic and epileptoid types of personalities; at EEG - the presence of dysfunction of median cerebral structures, epiactivity; while studying cognitive induced potentials it is necessary to detect affected processes of perception, identification and decreased volume of operative memory. The characteristics detected should be classified by the sign of their presence or absence as 1 or 0 points and the sum of points being above 7 one should conclude upon the tendency for addiction to psychoactive substances (PAS) or psychoactive actions (PAA), at the sum being 6 or 7 points - the boundary state, and at the sum being up to 6 points - the absence of the above-mentioned addictions. In case of no data on anamnesis the addiction to PAS and PAA should be determined at the sum of points being above 6, boundary state - at the sum of 5 or 6 points, and at the sum of 5 points - the absence of addiction. The innovation widens the number of preparations that help us to detect pathological addiction to PAS and PAA at early stages in 15-25-yr-aged persons.
EFFECT: higher accuracy and efficiency of detection.
