Cuba is currently no stranger to the threat of the scourge of drugs and its impact. Hence the political will to zero tolerance for this illicit trafficking. For this reason, until March 22. In Holguin as in the rest of the country. The Exercise of Prevention and Confrontation with Narcotics takes place.
Which includes multisectoral actions, where the health sector. Among other activities, carries out checks on the storage of medicines. Other substances with an effect similar to drugs. Neighborhood debates and health meetings with patients who have gone through addictions.
According to the mental health official in the General Directorate of Health (DGS) Iris Cosella Torres. “With the participation of territorial agencies, mass organizations and government structures. We intend to reach the neighborhoods with preventive actions and confrontation in intersectoral work with community factors to raise the perception of risk and rejection of drugs. We seek to promote protective factors, as well as achieve greater participation of the family in the education and protection of their children.”
Also as for the specific actions of the health sector, as part of this National Exercise. The official points out that psycho-educational interventions are developed in educational centers of the different levels of education.
The control and supervision in the storage of medicines and other substances, neighborhoods, debates, educational talks in workplaces, meetings with patients rehabilitated for addictions, radio programs and training actions of various kinds. The essential purpose is for the family to understand that drug addiction is a phenomenon present in our society today. Today our position is one of zero tolerance in the face of a scourge that every day finds new methods in the world to enslave people. This fight is a task for everyone, he concluded.
Moreover the Ministries of the Interior, Education, the General Customs of the Republic, the Supreme People’s Court, the Attorney General’s Office and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, among other mass organizations, also participate in this exercise.
Futhermore due to the importance of this issue, it has been considered a national security issue in Cuba, in the face of the risks and dangers for the new generations, we are facing an evil that directly affects the health of the population.
By: Maylín Betancourt Verdecia/Translated by Radio Angulo
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