“I was involved in the days leading up to the Chano’s hospitalizationThey called me to see how I could help. A former partner of Rodrigo speaks on the program, and it has to do with how the media and society as a whole, which idealizes and puts artists on certain pedestals. in the tragedy we discovered the error by uncovering something that at one time was covered up and that is also a way of hiding from addicts,” he said. Gaston Pauls.
The actor and host of “be free“, has just premiered the second season of his program on Chronicle (Friday at 10 pm), where he addresses the drama of addictions in the first person. ”Faced with a program of this type, it is difficult to speak in terms of success or failure, more beyond the fact that it is still a television program, it is a service. So it is difficult to say that it was a success for us when in reality we portrayed something very painful. In general are all defeated by addictions in any way”, he analyzed in dialogue with El Disparador (Delta 90.3).
-Are you satisfied with the scope of “Free Beings”?
-We feel that we fulfilled the objective, which was that at least in a year we could talk about the subject, which is precisely the other side of addictions and what is not said. We wanted to try to see if we could help even one person, and at this point there were more than 40 thousand who have asked for helpwhich speaks sadly of an absolutely alarming situation.
– Talking is starting to heal? Did it work like this in your case?
-Socially speaking is to begin to heal and not continue spreading disease. Convey real and concrete information. The second step any addict must go through is admit it and ask for help, which is usually the most complex. We are in a society where one hears the word contagion and inevitably thinks of a fatal disease.
-Is the addict contagious?
Addiction is a social disease It is not only suffered by those who are putting merch now through the nosebut it is transversal and many of them are in places of power, and I am not referring to political positions, but rather they have a place where they make decisions.
Can addiction be cured?
–I’ve seen 6-year-olds taking base paste and the one who gave him is someone who is surely using too. Denial is empowering and multiplying addiction. This disease, unlike others that may one day be discharged, has no solution, no infallible remedy and has a huge recurrence rate. Less than 10% manage not to consume again, which is why it is very serious.
-And how do you get out?
-There is a phrase that we say a lot in the anonymous groups that I keep going to, which is: “When you are sick of being sick”, because addiction does not have a bottom of the well, and you can always fall further. What if it happens to you that it is a blessing that has touched me was that you get tired of continuing in the dark. I asked God for help without having religion.
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