The Kanarian Social Organization TITEROYGAKAT, in response to the opinions expressed by Social Agents involved in the regrettable issue of Drug Addiction in Lanzarote, where the focus is fundamentally on its consequences, and how to alleviate them from the point of view of information, training and awareness of society, directly blaming it and fundamentally the family for this regrettable scourge that we all endure, directly and fundamentally the drug addicts and their families, and indirectly the rest of the citizens, except the traffickers.
We want to demystify all this demagogic paraphernalia of good advice and wills, which in some cases, has served and serves, so that many young people and some adults know the effects, both positive (if any), and negative of the drug.
Drug addiction becomes a problem from the moment it causes hundreds of deaths, citizen insecurity and a high economic cost in health care, detoxification and reintegration. There is also a large prison population related, many more drug addicts than traffickers or dealers.
We observe how consumption is increasingly diverted towards early ages, where health policies, awareness, rehabilitation, reintegration, or retention and/or prison policies cannot be implemented. Therefore, something is failing here, and don't come to us with the "it's that young people are unmotivated, it's that the family is unstructured, it's the incentive of the group, it's the environment, the society, and many more".
For our understanding, what fails is fundamentally the Legislative Power, to make laws more in line with our reality, the Police Power to prevent, control and arrest, and the Judicial Power to apply the laws. It is not about living in a police state, it is about living in a State of Law, where the criminal (trafficker) finds legal barriers that prevent him from committing crimes, and if he does, that the full weight of the Law falls on him, for example, prison with full compliance with the sentence, without rewards, or prison permits, confiscation of all his assets and that these assets are dedicated to rehabilitate, reintegrate and help drug addicts financially. If we do not do it this way, we will only be mere spectators of how traffickers become richer and richer, how our society is increasingly lost, and on top of that we will have to take funds from the public coffers to help these self-sick "drug addicts", with money that we need so much for other important and necessary things.
We have focused the issue of drug addiction only on the consumption of narcotic substances, alcohol and tobacco are also drugs, although allowed, and let's not mention Gambling addiction, but these other drug addictions have an enormous impact on the benefits of the State, and although they produce many deaths, citizen insecurity and break families, the Government is not interested in ending them for its own interest.
From this we deduce that Drug Addiction does not end because the State is not interested, it will be so that while we have these problems, we do not discuss and delve into others.
"The more cats, the more mice". Putting the mouse to take care of the cheese is counterproductive. And, who watches the mouse?.
The Autonomous Director of the Historical-Social Department
Nicolás Cabrera Acosta
