I belong to a devastated generation in your youth for drugs. When we look back, we feel as survivors of a trenches war. We saw family, friends and colleagues who were by our side. They had to pay them the highest price of a lethal chimera.
Those allegedly liberating myths of the May 68 in Paris They fell on us like the vomitone of a drunk spotted from a bridge over the passengers of a barge furrowing the Seine. Under the cobblestones there was no beach, only the moving sands that swallowed so many and their families.
Because there were many crosses on the other side of the festive faces of the «move»: Those of the cemeteries, but also those that brought to shoulders the families in days and nights of restlessness and, above all, of loneliness.
Were the times of the «Psychiatric deinstitutionalization». That trend meant to put a double problem behind the back of families: that of addiction and that of mental illness.
No one has proper treatment at one or another. Everything is supplemented with love without measureand now I get a knot in my throat while writing, especially of torn mothers, but firm, trying to keep the helm before the tragic anxiety of their children’s lives.
How many nights in candlehow many untimely outings to look for them, shipwrecked, on the cold shores of the white morning, thinking that it might be the last time.
How many hopes sown before the slightest recovery glimpse, before a new storm downloaded the Nth. And start again, return and more return on the void, not a few times to the outcome where there was no turning back for them … and, despite everything, what sweets to remember their truncated lives, in so many luminous and indelible things.
Despite awareness and awareness efforts, Drugs still have good propaganda In our day. There are many young people, getting least, who are attracted to the falsely transgressive message that surrounds them in the imaginary of so many rebels without cause.
The vast majority ignore the Very high price of entry to that world Allegedly transgressive, in which reality seems to finally lose those arist and hostile contours that atosige you, and where you think you draw your own worlds away from your daily life exist that you believe gray and monotonous.
What is distorted with drugs is not the reality that surrounds you: What is distorted is you. In the same way that drugs are no “trip”, unless you assume that it is your mind and your body that you are throwing into the boiler as fuel to give more and more speed to that train that goes anywhere.
Imagine a teenager before one of the tests faced by the characters in video games, with several doors in front of him. You have to choose the one that will lead you to cement your security itself, your confidence in your own potentialities, your ability to demonstrate your personal skills, which since our time would be called to be a «Rolled». That is the key test at those ages, such as the classic labyrinth, where you are or where you miss.
Well, of all the doors in front, Drugs are the false door that only leads to the abyss. Addiction, starting with the supposedly harmless “cannabis”, is the door to the opposite of what the adolescent seeks: to insecurity, distrust and disability. In the end it will be, yes, a “rolled” person, but it will be because addiction has it captive, suffocated, as a giant boa has “rolled” its prey.
Today the authentically transgressive, the true rebellion, the definitive battle for one’s freedom is to give a Pocazo to the slavery of drugs.
Public institutions can play a key role In that battle. This has been assumed at the Madrid Assembly, where we have promoted from the Popular Party the creation of a study commission on the consumption of illegal drugs, on which Isabel Díaz Ayuso He wanted to focus on this legislature.
The vote of this commission in the plenary last March started the Unanimity of all political groupswhat is an encouraging message about the coincidence of all Madrid representatives about the importance of this issue.
To the parliamentary commission is added the will of the regional government to address with more means and resources the prevention and treatment of drug addiction. It is fruit, beyond the political commitment, of a personal conviction by Isabel Díaz Ayuso and of his Minister of Health, Fatima Matute, given the urgency of attacking a serious problem of our time, especially among young people.
The I Regional Drug Planpresented last November, with more than seventy -five measures and a budget of 200 million euros, with prevention and awareness initiatives, preferably aimed at the youngest. An example is the campaign “Porros hit your life until it is destroyed”, which alerts on the demolving effects of cannabis, with a growing incidence in the appearance of psychotic outbreaks among its consumers.
The sanitary and family challenge that involves the double condition of the person suffering from addictions and at the same time a mental illness, which is known as “dual pathology”, also has a response in this regional plan with the implementation of the Dual pathology outpatient unitwhich will provide psychiatric support to these patients under treatment within the addiction welfare network. The entrance and day hospital unit of detoxification and uninhabing for adolescents and young people will also be reinforced.
Addressing dual pathology is a Cessential amino of public policies In attending these people. It is a great step when addressing its treatment, as it is for the improvement and specialization of the care they receive from professionals of unquestionable dedication and delivery. But, without a doubt, it is also an important advance to understand and help families who live this reality, and accompany them in this fight against the silent drug epidemic that is everyone’s struggle.
