WORK TREATMENT PROPHYLAXIS CAMPS, MOSCOW

Created: 8/31/1987

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PERFORM!NG HARD LABOR. FIVE OR SIX LTP CAMPS, VHICHBT THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS-ERE BELIEVED LOCATESIINTHE MOSCOW AREA INCAHP HELD SEVERAL THOUSAND PEOPLE. aflVLflfCOMMF.NT: AN LTP CAMP AT AN UNRECALLED LOCATION WITHIN THE MOSCOW RING OTHER CAMPS WERE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE CITY

2. ALTHOUGH THE LTP CAMPS WERE OSTENSIBLY DESIGNED TO ASSIST PATIENTS IN OVERCOMING THEIR DEPENDENCE ON ALCOHOL THROUGH WORK THERAPY, THEY WEREEANS OF OBTAINING THOUSANDS OF LABORERS AT LITTLE OR NO COST TO THE GOVERNMENT. MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE WAS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT. YPICALATIENT WOULD ARISE EARLY,IMPLE BREAKFAST, AND THEN BE GIVEN MEDICATION WHICH CONSISTED OF ANTABUSEWABLETS. THE PATIENT WOULD THEN WORK FOROURS ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OR OTHER TYPES OF SIMPLE HEAVY LABOR. LAIN DINNER, THE PATIENTS WERE SUBJECTED TO POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION BEFORE THEY RETIRED FOR THE MIGHT. THE COST TO FEED ONE PERSON FOR ONE DAY AT THE CAHP WAS ABOUTOPEKS.

ALTHOUGH ALCOHOL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN AT THE CAMPS, IT WAS EASILY OBTAINED BY BRIBING THE MVD GUARDS. THE ANTABUS MEDICATIONIOLENT REACTION TO ALCOHOL IN THE PATIENT, BUT SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD SERVED TIME IM LTP CAMPS LAIMED THE JUICE OF SEVERAL LEMONS TAKENERIODEU DAYS NEUTRALIZED THE EFFECT OF THE MEDICATION.T AMY RATE,-THE. WERE COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE FOR TREATING ALCOHOLISM. a| BCOMMENT:ATIENT FOR,qELIRIUM-TREMEHS,ATATIJUSTBEEN

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IF THE NUMBER OF ALCOHOLICS HAD INCREASED. SOURCE ATTENDED SEVERAL MEETINGS AT CLINIC NO. OSCOW, WHERE THE NEED FOR MORE LTP CAMPS WAS DISCUSSED. HE DOES NOT KNOW IF MORE CAMPS WERE CONSTRUCTED AND HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ALCOHOLICS WERE ENROLLED. IN THE PROGRAM.)