A day to say no to drugs and illegal trafficking

June 26 marks the World Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking .

Wanted by the United Nations, it is observed every year since 1988. Faced with the importance of celebrating and remembering such a day, one wonders how many people today are victims of drug abuse and how much is the amount that goes around to illegal trafficking and passageways, often of unexpected substances.

This year's theme, based on the motto " Listen First ", highlights first of all the importance of a type of active listening by adults, towards younger people.

The "Listen First" video (watch the video at the bottom of the page), released by the United Nations to raise public awareness, highlights how listening is the first step to help them grow up healthy and healthy.

The danger of hidden drugs

Secondly, a publication deserves to be reported, which is also an updated survey of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, in which it is emphasized how important it is to study and learn about youth consumption and the behaviors resulting from the hiring of "hidden drugs", such as supplements, alcohol, energy drinks or the so-called "smart drugs" and psychotropic substances.

This in order to understand how the drug market is getting smarter, as the document itself indicates: in fact " in Europe a growing number of new psychoactive substances are available (...) some substances are sold directly on the market of illicit substances, while others, the so-called "legal drugs", are sold more openly ", disguising themselves in apparently legal and permitted forms, but to which we must however pay much attention.

As general secretary Ban Ki-moon states, " Efforts to combat abuse of illicit drugs must be connected to our job of promoting opportunities, through fair and sustainable development. We must continually struggle to make weaker and stronger people stronger. fragile ".

A community that can be called civil, must therefore work together to fill empty spaces: it is precisely among the weakest, where there is poverty, ignorance, lack of social support, which threaten dangerous threats, such as drugs.

We are frightened reading the World Drug Report 2015, written by UNODC, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which speaks of 187 thousand deaths related to drug abuse in 2013.

Initiatives of the World Day against Drugs

One of the praiseworthy initiatives underway, connected with the Day against Drugs, is in Milan and is called "Assumption and substance abuse in adolescence", a two-day course to understand and understand what is under the drug world today.

The course is scheduled for June 23rd and 24th at "Palazzo Schuster Statale University" in Milan, organized by the "Maternal Infant Department, OU of Neuropsychiatry of Childhood and Knowledge of ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo di Milano" in collaboration with the "Department of Dependencies of the ATS Milano Città Metropolitana" and with the "University of Milan".

Conceived on the occasion of the International Day against Consumption and Illicit Drug Trafficking, the course will be attended by speakers and various professionals, among the leading experts in the field.