(1) If an alcoholic or a drug addict commits an offence, the court may, on its own motion, at the request of a labour collective or a health authority, apply compulsory medical treatment to such person in addition to the punishment for the offence committed, if a medical report is available.

(2) Persons referred to in paragraph (1) who have been sentenced to non-custodial sanctions shall be subject to compulsory treatment in medical institutions with a special treatment regime.

(3) If the persons referred to in paragraph (1) have been sentenced to imprisonment, during the execution of the sentence they shall be subjected to forced medical treatment, and after release from places of detention, if it is necessary to continue such treatment, they shall be treated in medical institutions with speacial regime.

(4) Termination of forced medical treatment shall be ordered by the court on the proposal of the medical institution where the person is treated.

(5) If the offence has been committed by a person who abuses alcohol and thereby puts his family in a difficult material situation, the court, at the same time as imposing the non-custodial sentence for the offence committed, shall have the right, at the request of the work group or close relatives of the person concerned, to place him under curatorship.