System of linguistic and pictographic signs of drug addiction

Abstract

The article analyzes the jargon and pictographic script of drug addicts as a variety of semiotic systems, not sufficiently studied in linguistics and general semiotics, it is suggested that the study of these elements of subculture for practical work of judicial experts, law enforcement officials, medical and educational staff. On the material of existing reference sources, questionnaires and interviews of respondents, as well as direct observation of the speech and unreal behavior of patients in the practice of the doctor, there are types of jargon and tattoos depending on their carriers' addiction to a certain drug. The question of whether there is a need for constant recording of changes in these symbolic systems.