Some 500 primary and secondary students have been trained in prevention Drogodependencias this year.
The City's drug dependency has developed several activities including workshops include drug prevention aimed at primary school students (6th) and Secondary Education have worked through their sessions with about 350 students from respective municipality mind And workshops for students of 6th primary, in which about 150 students participated.
Every year, these workshops have been held in the 5 centers and 10 centers ESO primary education, by the Department technician.
Through them, as explained by the mayor of Social Care and Education, Josefa María Sánchez, have mainly addressed the dangers of smoking in the workshops of primary and issues related to the consumption of alcohol and cannabis in Secondary because these are the most consumed drug among teens.
Also explained how these and other drugs affect the body, the family and social environment, as well as what might be the impact in the medium and long-term consumption of these substances.
With these workshops, which will resume next year, aims to provide objective information and appropriate training on the consequences of the use and abuse of drugs and the acquisition of skills, competencies and resources to effectively address the relationship with the same skills.
In addition, the Municipal Drug Addiction Prevention Programme has conducted awareness campaigns on drugs, including most notably the campaign of the World Day Against Snuff that-this year-has focused on raising awareness about the effectiveness of tax to snuff to reduce smoking and the adequacy of states corresponding tax increase measures.
From the Department of Social Services is recalled that the global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are nonsmokers who die from breathing smoke snuff.
