Archivo etiqueta «Drogadicción»
Por Begoña Del Pueyo, periodista (EL PERIÓDICO, 26/03/11):
Hace unas semanas, la Junta Internacional de Fiscalización de Estupefacientes (JIFE) nos situaba a la cabeza de Europa en el consumo de cocaína. Tan deshonroso podio no debería interpretarse como un completo fracaso de los esfuerzos que se realizan para impedir que nuestros jóvenes consuman drogas. No sería justo para los miles de profesionales que trabajan como asesores y terapeutas y que, a pesar de cobrar sueldos mileuristas, realizan su tarea con toda la dedicación que los recursos económicos les permite.
Casualmente, esos mismos días en los que el organismo consultivo … Seguir leyendo
Par Fernando Henrique Cardoso, ex presidente de Brasil y encabeza la Comisión Mundial sobre Políticas de Drogas, y Michel D. Kazatchkine, Director Ejecutivo del Fondo Global para la Lucha contra el SIDA, la Tuberculosis y la Malaria. Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 04/02/11):
La democracia directa suiza permite a los ciudadanos que hayan reunido suficientes firmas en una petición desafiar las leyes y políticas gubernamentales en referendos a nivel nacional. Después de una serie de muertes por SIDA en la década de 1980, los suizos se vieron cara a cara ante un problema que … Seguir leyendo
Por Berna González Harbour (EL PAÍS, 01/10/10):
Se dice estos días que poco mérito tiene que unos ex presidentes defiendan ahora medidas como la legalización de las drogas cuando no tienen responsabilidades de gobierno, cuando nadie les recuerda propuestas semejantes durante su etapa en el poder y cuando no deben someterse al higiénico ritual de las urnas. Hace un año fueron César Gaviria, Ernesto Zedillo y Fernando Henrique Cardoso, ex presidentes de Colombia, México y Brasil, los que proclamaron el fracaso de la estrategia contra el narcotráfico y la necesidad de afrontar fórmulas distintas. Y hace pocos días fue Felipe … Seguir leyendo
By Donald A. Donahue Jr., executive director of the Center for Health Policy & Preparedness at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and Dr. Stephen Cunnion, the center’s medical director (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 31/03/10):
The Obama administration has declared its intention to respond faster and more effectively to bioterrorism. But at least two bizarre incidents among drug abusers in Europe force us to question whether experiments with biological weapons might be under way already. In recent weeks, we have heard mystifying reports of the outbreak of anthrax infections among heroin users in Scotland and Germany. More than two … Seguir leyendo
By Robin Murray, professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (THE TIMES, 03/11/09):
The ill-tempered argument over cannabis use is an ideological dispute between those who regard it as an entirely safe herb and those who regard it as a devilish drug likely to drive one mad after a few puffs. Sadly, there is rarely an honest and open discussion on why people enjoy it, what level of consumption is safe, if adolescents are especially at risk and whether certain types of cannabis pose greater dangers.
Professor David Nutt, who was sacked as the … Seguir leyendo
Por Ignacio García-Valdecasas, diplomático español (EL PAÍS, 04/08/09):
Hoy día, algunos sectores económicos ofrecen terreno para la reflexión. Se prohíbe la fabricación y el comercio al por mayor de ciertas cosas, pero se tolera o legaliza su consumo y comercio de menudeo. Por el contrario, hay productos cuyo uso y consumo están prohibidos y demonizados en muchos casos, pero su fabricación y exportación a gran escala son actividades respetables.
Es obvio que en el primer supuesto hablamos de algunas drogas. Los ejemplos para el segundo son menos evidentes, aunque la fabricación y el comercio de armas ofrecen uno adecuado. … Seguir leyendo
By George Monbiot, the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (THE GUARDIAN, 29/06/09):
It looked like the first drop of rain in the desert of drugs policy. Last week Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the UN office on drugs and crime, said what millions of liberal-minded people have been waiting to hear. “Law enforcement should shift its focus from drug users to drug traffickers … people who take drugs need medical help, not criminal retribution.” Drug production should … Seguir leyendo
Por Vicente Carrion Arregui, profesor de Filosofía (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 28/03/09):
No se alarmen. No quiero hablarles de aquel chaval que empezó a fumar porros y acabó atracando farmacias, ‘yonqui’ perdido, sino de esta jovencita que ha pasado de ser una estudiante ejemplar a no poder terminar la ESO, reactiva a toda recomendación familiar que no sea complacer sus antojos. No ignoro que una cosa puede llevar a la otra pero es tan evidente que no por fumar porros se convierte uno en marginado social, delincuente, maltratador o abusador sexual -por probable que sea la asociación de todas estas … Seguir leyendo
By Evo Morales Ayma, the president of Bolivia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/03/09):
This week in Vienna, a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs took place that will help shape international antidrug efforts for the next 10 years. I attended the meeting to reaffirm Bolivia’s commitment to this struggle but also to call for the reversal of a mistake made 48 years ago.
In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed the coca leaf in the same category with cocaine — thus promoting the false notion that the coca leaf is a narcotic … Seguir leyendo
By Roger Boyes (THE TIMES, 01/12/08):
The British have always been beastly about the Swiss. Oscar Wilde thought the Alpine republic was inhabited solely by theologians and waiters; Sydney Smith argued that it was an inferior version of Scotland. The consensus seems to be that the Swiss did not deserve their extravagantly beautiful landscape. Ethnocentric claptrap, of course. We just resent that you can prosper by avoiding wars; wimps win. Remember that old Orson Welles line: “They had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Well, yesterday’s referendum in Switzerland shows … Seguir leyendo
By Charles M. Blow (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/06/08):
The actress Tatum O’Neal was arrested recently on charges of buying crack cocaine from a man on the street near her New York City home. She is a 44-year-old mother of three. She has spent years in and out of drug abuse treatment (which she chronicled in her 2004 memoir), and according to her publicist she will continue to “attend meetings” for drug and alcohol abuse.
Ms. O’Neal illustrates a disturbing trend among those being admitted to substance abuse treatment services: a growing percentage of older women are being treated for … Seguir leyendo
By Theodore Dalrymple, a retired prison doctor and author of Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (THE TIMES, 30/05/08):
It is unusual for politicians to face up to the obvious, but the Scottish Executive seems for once to have done so: it has recognised what has long stared it in the face, namely that dishing out methadone to drug addicts is not the answer to their problems or to the problems that they cause society. A different approach is needed.
Perhaps in 100 years historians will wonder why so many of the governing elite, from senior doctors … Seguir leyendo
Por Begoña Del Pueyo, responsable del espacio Padres sin complejos en el programa Protagonistas de Punto Radio (EL PERIÓDICO, 05/10/07):
Este es el angustioso interrogante que la mayoría de los padres de adolescentes se plantean a la vista de cifras de consumo que, pese a haber descendido, continúan siendo preocupantes tal como se nos presentan. Las advertencias que alimentan el miedo actúan al final como profecía que se cumple, y así lo perciben muchas veces los jóvenes, que no se ven reflejados en la imagen que la sociedad proyecta de ellos. Frente al 20% de jóvenes entre 14 y … Seguir leyendo
Por Simon Jenkins (THE GUARDIAN, 03/02/07):
At the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland I lunched with a friend from the local tourist board. “Any good ideas today?” he would laugh as another blast echoed round Belfast. How about an Armalite shooting contest, or an Ian Paisley rally in the rain, or a tour of the Royal Victoria hospital knee-surgery unit? His career, to put it mildly, was on hold.
Similar thoughts occurred over lunch in Bogotá with those promoting Colombian tourism. Beset by media reports of warlordism, kidnapping and narco crime, they seemed trapped in the image stakes … Seguir leyendo
By Yasmin Jackson, a pseudonym (THE GUARDIAN, 14/12/06):
I’ve been selling sex since I was 18 and I’m 41 now. I ran away from home when I was 14 because I was terrified my mum was going to put me in care, and ended up living with fairground people for three years. Like so many girls in my situation, I drifted to London. Having no skills, I ended up working in a hostess bar, then moved down the prostitution food chain and worked for an escort agency.
By the time I was in my early 20s, I was working … Seguir leyendo