“My criminal, lack of attention to addiction”

“It is one of the major failures in criminal policy in this country: the lack of interest in people with addiction,” said Saskia Nino de Rivera, President and founder of Renisestra. If you have money, you can pay a good clinic; If not, you end up in places without minimal guarantees. “

In an interview with Pascal Peltran del Rio, to Radio imageChild de Rivera said that in Mexico, addiction is still “treated since the logic of drug trafficking.” This leads to “the absence of public policy in criminal policy, where addiction attention is not criminalized and is considered a health problem.”

This abandonment that leads families to the attachments, “places where torture and violence cannot be impossible, believing that extreme fear will stop consumption”, and that, in addition, they are spaces “that end through the organized crime, which resort there.”

Normalization of consumption is more clear. All young people we are working with tell us that exposure to drugs in the street is the easiest thing in the world, “the activist warned. In such a case,” reaching the rehabilitation process, especially for minors and youth, is a health and right issue, “however,” there is no place to rehabilitate them. “

In recent days, joinery He declared the situation in the illegal toxins that run the country, where the practices that violate human rights, such as torture, and where consumers can reach their feet or depriving them of freedom.

Employees of these sites, known as accessories, receive money to kidnap addicted persons and maintain their acceptance.

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