The addictions of young people have fully entered the political agenda of the Community of Madrid.
Yesterday the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, during her speech at the EL MUNDO Forum, was citing a litany,
from anorexia and bulimia to the consumption of pornography through video games, gambling or drugs
, which she defined as « a woodworm” for society.
And, for this reason, the regional government has in place and will expand a strategy to deal with it.
At this time, Madrid has an addiction prevention center at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, a network of 23 Comprehensive Drug Addiction Care Centers (CAID), 92 places in hospital centers for those who suffer from addictions and a battery of prevention and treatment of this problem.
But now the focus will be on the educational field with
the implementation of a Prevention Plan for the risk of drug use in educational centers
headed by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Policies and Health.
That the regional government has focused its strategy on drug use, they point out from the department of Enrique Ossorio, is due to the fact that it is linked to the increase in Latino gangs and violent attitudes.
"It is a pioneering measure in Spain that three ministries come together to deal with this scourge," they point out from Education about a plan that
will be mandatory for all public and concerted schools in the region
.
Private centers will also have access to all the information to execute it.
The new strategy of the Community of Madrid will consist of four phases, the first being detection.
Sources from the Ministry of Education point out that this
will be the work of both teachers when they find "some suspicious situation" and of students and parents
.
To do this, everyone will have "an anonymous form" that will be sent to the center's management team so that the investigation can begin.
From the regional government they point out that
communication with the family is "essential"
so that they can provide the information that allows detecting alarm signals such as behaviors in the closest areas.
The second step will consist of a possible Educational Intervention from the center, where there will be a Coexistence Unit made up of three professionals from the school who will lead the investigations.
This will be the third phase, which will give way to the fourth consisting of
the referral of those affected to specialized external services
: the Security Forces and Bodies, Social Services, the CAID and the health centers distributed throughout the territory of the Community of Madrid with specific units.
This plan, they say from the Ministry of Education, will be put into operation "immediately" to deal with the increase in drug use which, in the case of cannabis, as Ayuso detailed yesterday, has multiplied by eight.
"
The war against addictions should be waged in all the cities of the world and I doubt that it is being done
," said the president of the Community of Madrid yesterday.
The popular leader also announced yesterday that the authorities will strengthen the supervision of entrances and exits in schools to prevent drug trafficking, providing more resources to local police canine patrols.
These will also act in the celebrations of the municipalities with the mission, foci of hustle and bustle among young people, according to the regional government.
“The biggest brake on freedom is drug trafficking.
In fact, most dictatorships are involved in it," said Ayuso, who stressed that
his Executive has 45 measures in place against violence and addictions.
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