Administrative liability measures used in the fight against sniffing

Introduction: the article is devoted to the study of problematic issues of the application of measures of administrative responsibility for offenses related to “sniffing” in the youth environment. Materials and methods: the materials of the study were normative legal acts, including bylaws, regulating the issues of counteracting “sniffing”, as well as judicial practice. When preparing a scientific article, first of all, formal legal and empirical methods were used, as well as the method of system analysis. The results of the study: generalization of the experience of law enforcement in the field of combating a new type of adolescent substance abuse - “sniffing” made it possible to identify common problems associated with the lack of legal regulation of the circulation of intoxicating substances, and to formulate individual corrective legislation in this area of proposals. Findings and Conclusions: in the conclusion, the conclusion is substantiated that it is necessary to recognize “sniffing” as a pathogenic harmful phenomenon along with others (drug addiction, alcoholism) and to establish effective and sufficient measures of administrative and legal response for the corresponding offenses.