Drug use and prevention - Detox from cocaine, heroin, alcoholism, tranquilizer rehab

Prevalence of drug use

According to the last study displayed by the Ministry of Health on the drug use, the number of teenagers, ages 14 to 18, who consume or have consumed cocaine in our country has multiplied by four in the last 10 years. At the moment, cocaine is the second most frequently used drug among Spanish young people, only after cannabis.

Source: DGPNSD: Spanish Observatory on Drugs

This data was corroborated in the last study carried out by the National Plan on Drugs, which shows that drug use has significantly increased in Spain in the last ten years, especially among young people, ages between 14 and 18, who mainly use cocaine for recreational purposes. Also, as we can see in the following graphics, cocaine use among 18-year-old teens has greatly increased in the last year.

Source: 2004 National Survey of Drug Use among Secondary Schools

The bullish tendency of consumption among young people extends to the demographic group aged between 15 and 64 years, as the Household Survey done by the Spanish Observatory on Drugs shows:

Source: DGPNSD. 1995-2003 Household Survey on Drugs

With all this data, we must consider another really significant key for us: the number of consumers who decide to treat their addiction has considerably increased in the last years.

Source: DGPNSD: Spanish Observatory on Drugs. Treatment Indicator

This map of the prevalence of drug use leads us to a health and social problem of first-order in our country, especially among the youngest population. However, drug use among young people is a tremendous and tragic problem worldwide. The following graph represents a summary of the past and present decade's tendencies towards drug use by adolescents in the USA.

Annual Prevalence of Illicit Drugs Use among Eighth, Tenth and Twelfth Year students

Current approaches to this problem include international, military and police efforts to control the production and to interdict the flow of addictive drugs, as well as a diverse array of programs involving education and role models that are designed to deter youngsters from using drugs.

For that reason, it is necessary to promote and reinforce drugs prevention programs, on the part of public and private institutions, to tackle the tremendous increase of users, not just among teenagers, but a growing number of younger people.

TAVAD is a detoxification clinic, but also, a responsible organization that has become concerned about the drug problem, including the basic task of the prevention, as is expected of a professional team that faces the bitter side of drug use daily. TAVAD’s contribution to prevention, so important in our society, has resulted in the most important investment in R&D made in our country to tackle drug addiction.

░ Prevention System 1: Virtual Drug Use and Virtual Drug Addiction in Multimedia Games as a Preventive Vaccine Against Drug Use

Psychological vaccine against drug prevention game cocaine consumption

The game that can become a psychological vaccine against drugs
(TVE 1 Noticias)

The computer game, invented by Dr.Legarda, may become a psychological vaccine to prevent drug use

░ Prevention System 2: The Permanent International Drug Abuse Prevention Campaign.

░ Prevention System 3: Endogenous drugs Informative Advertising Campaign. Say Yes to Drugs