INCB reports on opioid consumption and average daily consumption of defined daily doses per million inhabitants of these drugs list no data for Tajikistan.⁸ Surayo Mirzoeva suggests that there are many difficulties for the population in accessing strong opioids from chemists and drug stores, highlighting the absence of a national drug policy in Tajikistan, and stressing the need to create such a policy, particularly in relation to the use of anesthesia. Legislation relating to opioid availability and consumption in Tajikistan includes recommendations ‘on drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors’, which was approved by the Tajikistan Parliament in 2006, and which stipulated the drugs that may be imported into and exported out of the country.⁹

Table 2: Average daily consumption of defined daily doses (for statistical purposes) of morphine per million inhabitants, 2002-2004 Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States (plus Mongolia)

Source: International Narcotics Control Board Narcotic Drugs: Estimated World Requirements for 2006. Statistics for 2002-2004. New York: United Nations, 2006.