---
title: "Precursor Chemical Violations"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/precursor-chemical-violations-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Compulsory treatment in Georgia: grounds, the two-year term and discontinuation. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Precursor Chemical Violations

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/precursor-chemical-violations-en

## Representation in Compulsory-Treatment Cases

The Georgian title of this page is a garbled machine translation flagged for editorial correction; the actual subject is medico-legal defence — the analysis of the institutions that concern a person suffering from drug addiction when the court appoints compulsory treatment. A guiding boundary is noted: the proper regime of substitution therapy (methadone or buprenorphine programmes) lives in the law on narcological assistance and health-ministry acts and lies outside this page; the Criminal Code regulates precisely the coercive medical intervention against which defence is needed — its grounds, nature, duration and discontinuation.

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### Term of compulsory treatment?

With the sentence — up to two years, on the commission's conclusion.

### Can it be discontinued?

Yes — on the commission's conclusion, with three-monthly review.

### Purpose?

Crime prevention, order and cure.