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.

Bullicio

"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.