Drugs stigmatize

Drugs Stigmatize
There is a campaign that has been circulating with the following slogan: “Everything has a price”. It searches to raise society’s awareness about the presence of narcotics as a product that leads to squander and waste. The creative idea of action rests upon assertion: “What is most dangerous about drugs is to forget what they really are”.
Spain is the first country on the planet within the squanders of cocaine. It has prevailed over the United States and has quadruplicated Western Civilization’s average mean, according to the United Nations, as its buying population ranges from 15 to 64 years of age. The drug is rushed about within a marginal environment of misfortune and poverty. There are more than one-thousand huts that house more clans who vegetate within brittle situations.

In the suburbs of refugees few are those who reach the fourth decade of existence. There are more than 2,000 clandestine huts and more or less 40,000 mortals of distinct nations. The weakness and fragility of these constructions, the lack of clean and safe water and lighting, as well as the meagerness of health conditions, in addition to the evident depauperation, are the routinely lived surroundings. It astonishes when one sees content, ragged and naked creatures being indifferent about their cruel reality and frolicking between the stocks of garbage piles. The spectacle is so shocking that it makes one’s heart shudder.

A separated humanity is what appears upon its worn out dwellers, who have resigned the battle for their comfort. With the stigma that drugs provoke, the hollow firmness, hardly without even maintaining such firmness, they move about by kneading used up syringes.
The profits yielded by the coming and going traffic of drugs have reached substantial numbers in each debut, arriving from those more than 3,000 drug addicts that have appeared in the 70 transaction settlements.
The more the drug being consumed, the more it is imperiously needed. The seller fools the gullible buyer with entrance to paradise, but silences the prices that the buyer will have to pay; his or her own auto destruction and physical and psychic deterioration that will transform the brief lasting paradise into a prolonged and unbearable hell.
Doesn’t the emptiness of God lead to hopelessness? Hopelessness leads to dehumanization. The human being without God dehumanizes and becomes the enemy of his or her own self. (Translation by Gianna A. Sanchez-Moretti).
Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer has led a distinguished career in Spain in the fields of publicity and press relations. He is currently President of the European Institute of Marketing.
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