They insist to deepen the fight against the drug
consumption The qualification is the axis of the question Specialists and civil employees were satisfied by
the reaches of the call During seven days became factories, acts and
until a concert Sometimes one of each ten Argentineans of between
16 and 64 years consumed in its life an illegal substance like
marijuana, cocaine, hallucinogens or paste base, and more of the 3
percent of the boys of between 12 and 15 years it entered the circuit
of consumption of these drugs, according to a study made by the
Secretariat of Programming for the Prevention of the Drug addiction
and Lucha against the Drug trafficking (Sedronar) in 1999. As opposed to these data that dependency is taking ahead
diverse tendientes initiatives to palliate these adversities. By
such reason, it organized the National Week of Prevention of the
Addictions, that finished yesterday. "In these seven days there were activities in all the
provinces. This is important if we consider the serious social
and political crisis in which we are immersed. Something has
motivated to set of wills, that has done that this week was
extraordinary ", said the holder of the Sedronar, Wilbur Ricardo
Grimson, during the closing act. The activities included round tables on diverse subjects,
a participativos concert of tango in the Theater Nacional Cervantes,
factories and cultural encounter in diverse points of the country. "Although an agreement of efforts of this type turns in
winch of a date fixes - yesterday the International of Lucha against
Illegal Uso and the Drug traffic was commemorated the Day, according
to established the United Nations in 1987- the action in the field of
the prevention is daily, regular and permanent. It does not move
a speech, but a permanent conviction to us. "After a time of acephalia, today in the Sedronar
there is bullicio, creative people and initiative", said Grimson in
the act of carried out closing yesterday. The civil employee
participated in a round table in which, among others, they were the
musician Emilio of the Guercio and the Carlota specialists Rodriguez
Etcheberne and Victorio Spatz. Grimson said that in the borders "it has to gendar to me
incomunicado and disarmed that in those conditions cannot make
prevention, and the narcotics traffickers happen with total impunity.
For that reason, we reinforced the borders and the personnel or
are deceiving somebody ", said. In as much, the Buenosairean Penitentiary Service
organized yesterday an encounter that reunited, in the Historical File
and the Museum, to ex- residents and relatives of prisoners in
treatment of recovery by drug abuse. Professionals participated who coordinate the work in the
diverse centers of treatment, which the Addictive Conducts Secretariat
of and Illegal Drug Use depend on. The participation and the familiar support are fundamental
to obtain positive results, agreed yesterday the participants of the
call in which, among other things, testimonies of ex- presidiarios
were listened to that managed to surpass the problematic ones of the
addictions. Official data Age of initiation Data of 1999 One of each five young people proved marijuana for
the first time to the 15 years or less. Between 16 and 18, 45%,
and 21% began after the 20 years. Drug class Between the cases of the study The marijuana (8,6%) is the substance of greater
use. (3,7%) follow the cocaine to him and the paste bases (0.9
percents). Men and women Differences in the consumption The men consume more marijuana, sedatives and
cocaine. The women incline by stimulating sedatives and without
medical prescription.
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