UNAD, the Addiction Care Network, has presented this Tuesday the main conclusions of the study ‘Profile of addictions in 2022′. A year in which it has served 47,000 people with different types of addictions. Cocaine and heroin mark consumption in men. Alcohol is the substance that causes the most addictions in them. But there is more. Of the women who have asked for helpthey are double the ones that consume anxiolytics or sleeping pills with medical prescription than those who do it without a prescription. Something that those responsible for the entity criticized harshly. “There is excessive medicalization. We ask that the consumption trend stop. We need effective coordination with health resources“, indicated the people in charge of the entity.
In a press conference, the president of UNAD, Luciano Poyato; the vice president of the entity, Felisa Pérez; and the secretary, Encarnación Pámpanas, recounted the information provided by the 99 entities that belong to the network and that seeks to x-ray the situation of the people with drug addiction problems and other addictions. Poyato recalled that it is “an invisible problem” in society and asked that, on the eve of general elections, the collective be taken into account if any political decision is made and asked, above all, resources and more resources for your care.
alcohol in women
To Encarnacion Pampanas He had to present the main results of the investigation. That they speak of the attention to a total of 47,033 people last year, of which a total of 46,343 were substance users. Work, he stressed, has a clear gender perspective, because 25% of these people are women. The profile, age between 34 and 41 years, without studies and unemployed; with children and who resides in a home owned by you or of the family member with whom you live.
The first reason for which the woman -who began to consume when she was between 18 and 25 years old and has some type of psychological disorder- asks for help, is because of the consumption of alcohol
The first reason why this woman – who started consuming when she was between 18 and 25 years old and have some kind of psychological disorder– asks for help, it is for alcohol consumption, which in our country is “absolutely normalized, also in minors”, indicated Pámpanas. Later, for the cocaine. But there is a fact that the entity’s secretary is particularly concerned about. Consumption of anxiolytics and sleeping pills.
a fast track
“Medication is sometimes the fastest way to solve a problem, but their trend of increased consumption must be stopped,” he said, because what worries them the most is that this prescription is made from health centers. “That is the headline. Because?. Because we go more to the doctor, because we are more medicalized. The medical prescription targets women above all and creates addiction problems and should not be present from the health centers,” Encarnación Pámpanas censured.
The drugs they consume the most are cocaine and heroin and they have done so since they were minors
As for the men with substance addictions the profile coincides with that of women, except that in these cases they do have primary education, live in a rented property and do not have sons or daughters. the drugs that they consume the most are cocaine and heroin, and they have been doing it since they were minors. Alcohol is in third place if we talk about that consumption.
non-substance addictions
In addition to the attentions motivated by the drugs, the study also includes the cases of people who ask for help for non-substance addictions. During the year 2022, the UNAD network served a total of 690 people in this situation, of which 21% were women. He female profile, in a third of the cases, they are under the age of 18, work or study and do not have children. Bingo is his main face-to-face addictionfollowed by slot machines, while in the online aspect it is video games and bingo on-line the main addictive practices that motivate attention.
As for men, the age increases to the range between 18 and 49 years, works and does not have children. In this case, it’s the machines of bets sports the main addiction, followed by slots. On the other hand, bets sports on-line are the main virtual addictive practice. As Pámpanas has emphasized, both in men and women, the most frequent non-substance addiction outside of everything that the game supposes are social networks.
criminal issues
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On the other hand, the secretary of the entity has underlined the legal-criminal problem that drag many of the people with addiction problems and that is approached from specific services. “Justice falls on many people with addictions who committed crimes because of their addiction and are being prosecuted and imprisoned from a starting point of great social vulnerability,” he said. In 2022, the UNAD network attended from these services 5,234 people of whom 16% were women.
Life expectancy has also increased in older drug addicts. We claim some specialized services for this age”, indicate from UNAD
“Each figure has a name and surname. And there is a family behind it”, they reported from UNAD, which, over and over again, asked for more resources, especially for older people with addictions. who often have nowhere to live and they end up doing it on the street because, precisely because of these problems, some social and health resources do not allow them to enter. “Life expectancy has also increased in older drug addicts. We claim some specialized services for this age. Comprehensive care and equity throughout the territory,” said the entity’s vice president, Felisa Perez.