{"id":102059,"date":"2011-06-02T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=102059"},"modified":"2011-06-02T17:10:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T12:10:52","slug":"drug-addiction-prevalent-in-armenia-prisons-human-rights-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/02\/drug-addiction-prevalent-in-armenia-prisons-human-rights-activist.html","title":{"rendered":"Drug Addiction Prevalent in Armenia Prisons: Human Rights Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Armenia&#8217;s penal institutions, prisoners, if not 100% then 99%, are deprived of drugs, said Arsen Babayan, head of the public relations office at the justice ministry\u2019s penal institutions department, at a press conference in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there is large fight against drugs. On the topic of inhaling gasoline as a drug, Babayan said, &#8220;The problem is not purely inside the prisons as much as it is outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the press conference was Artur Sakunts, head of the Helsinki Citizens&#8217; Assembly Vanadzor office and head of the civic group monitoring Armenia&#8217;s prison, who said that despite the fight against drugs, there is a real prevalence of drug addiction in prisons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A narcotics division [just] opened In the Hospital for Detainees \u2014 this means the problem exists per se,&#8221; said Sakunts, who noted that prisoners are also swapping syringes.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A narcotics division [just] opened In the Hospital for Detainees \u2014 this means the problem exists per se,&#8221; said Sakunts, who&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,22739,18552,27603,13585,16465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}