In the introductory part of the paper the authors were involved in reviewing the problem of drug abuse and drug-related crimes as sociopathological phenomenon with a wide range of criminal consequences. They also give a brief overview of the genesis and development of the basic causes of the wide prevalence of this phenomenon in the society. After that there is a cohesive review of the factors of drug addiction and crime (primary, secondary and tertiary drug-related crime), while the central section is devoted to typology and characterization of persons in the sphere of drug-related crimes and their relation to the police, as one of the entities that are actively involved in combating this social evil.Autori se u uvodnom delu rada bave razm...