Together with the IAPA we reinforce actions to prevent drug consumption

• We will carry out a diagnosis regarding the main selling points and the consumption of psychoactive substances

Offering treatment alternatives, channeling to Attention Centers for Addicts for community reintegration and to psychologically help psychoactive substance consumers through the Safety Line and the Trustworthy Chat are some of the actions that help reduce drug consumption and that the Addiction Prevention and Attention Institute (IAPA) and the Citizen Council for Safety and Justice in Mexico City will promote.

This was established by Fernando Hernandez Palacios Miron, chief manager of the IAPA and the president of the Citizen Council, Salvador Guerrero Chipres, as they signed an agreement in which they also announced the making of a diagnosis to locate the main selling points and drug consumption throughout neighborhoods of high crime incidence rates.

This agreement is part of the works made in Mexico City in order to contribute with the Program Together for Peace led by president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with the purpose of achieving peace in the country through the strengthening of the social network and the reduction of inequality.

“We are building social policies based on the prevention and non- criminalization of young people. We know that working on social causes will contribute to the betterment of advances that already exist in terms of safety in the city,” Guerrero Chipres expressed.

Fernando Hernandez Palacio Miron, director if IAPA, highlighted the work made by the Citizen Council to help young people who seek to find alternatives in the treatment for consumption and in ways to leave the cycle of violence.

“I am happy to sign this agreement because the best channel that exists to help the population is the Citizen Council,” he added.

In Mexico City young people start taking drugs at an age of 7 to 10 years; the drugs that are more commonly consumed are alcohol, marihuana, tobacco and cocaine.

Data from the Citizen Council establishes that in cases of violence within the family, 29 of the people who are violent consume some type of psychotropic substance, particularly alcohol, cocaine and inhalable drugs.

Also, in Mexico City, 10 out of every 100 citizens reported having taken illegal drugs at some point in their lives, according to the National Survey of Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption 2016-2017.