Medical and legal aspects of assessment of state of alcohol, drug intoxication in persons under investigation and convicted persons

The study has shown that the majority of violent crimes are accomplished in the state of alcoholic or drug intoxication. However, the fact of the accomplishment of a crime in the state of intoxication and conducting of examination is not always reflected in the materials of investigation, cases, court sentences. It is proposed to legislatively provide required examination of the state of alcoholic, drug or other intoxication at the commitment of violent crimes and to respectively consider the state of intoxication as the burdening fact with the determination of form and period of the criminal punishment