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More than 9,600 students in the first year of Secondary Education in the Region received training on prevention of alcohol consumption last academic year
Specialists and health professionals will analyze in Cartagena, from tomorrow until Friday 29, the scope of the 'Argos Program' developed by the Ministry of Health around the prevention of drug addiction.
The course 'Education for Health and Drug Addiction', organized by the Ministry of Health and the International University of the Sea, includes the different views of the 'Argos Program', as well as its advances, other experiences related to health education and addictions and the detection of cannabis in pregnant women in the Region of Murcia.
The director general of Public Health and Addictions, José Carlos Vicente, will open these days tomorrow, Wednesday, September 27, (at 9:30, in the Centro Universitario ISEN in Cartagena, Calle Menéndez Pelayo, 8).
Among the activities, a round table on addiction neurobiology was organized, in which Trinidad Herrero, professor of the University of Murcia's Human Anatomy and Psychobiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Julián Oñate, head of the service's Drug Addiction Service Health Murciano.
Good practices in prevention will also be addressed, with the intervention of the Chief of Prevention of Drug Addiction of the Government Delegation for the National Drug Plan, Sonia Moncada, and the psychologist specialist in Evaluation of Quality Programs, Almudena Silva.
The objectives of these conferences are, among others, to provide the theoretical bases necessary for the development of health education in the field of addiction prevention and to know the intervention strategies in different scenarios and situations.
They also aim to facilitate awareness of the most effective interventions in drug addiction and the conduct of research studies related to alcohol, cannabis and other drugs in Primary Care.
Likewise, it will be announced how to prevent and reduce the damage caused by exposure to alcohol and other drugs during critical periods of development (from birth to the end of adolescence), giving special importance to the level of primary health care, as well such as measuring social impact through economic indicators, known as 'social return on investment'.
Information about the course is available on the website http://www.um.es/unimar/ficha-curso.php?estado=V&cc=51642.
More than 9,000 young people trained
On the other hand, more than 9,600 students of the first compulsory secondary education (ESO) in the Region have been trained in the prevention of alcohol consumption within the 'Argos Program'.
This initiative is aimed at avoiding alcohol consumption among the youngest, since one in four 14-year-olds have bottled up and six out of ten students have become drunk, according to the latest 'School Use Survey Drugs in High School Students' (Estudes) for the course 2014/2015 (published in 2016), which facilitates the Observatory on Drugs in the Region of Murcia.
The Argos model, which is developed within the Regional Plan on Drugs, is implanted in the network of primary care centers (62 of the 85 centers) to involve young people and teachers in the prevention of alcohol and other drug use. is developed in more than half of the secondary schools and in most of the municipalities.
Health has trained more than 1,200 doctors, nurses, midwives and pediatricians from 97 percent of the Health Centers through this model to have specific knowledge in the approach to drug dependence.
The 'Argos'-Murcia Program has been progressively expanded since the school year 2011/2012.
It was launched by the Regional Coordination Unit Addictions of the Ministry to approach from a community perspective the education of children to prevent the problem of alcohol and other drugs.
It also includes the campaign 'Alcohol: Consciousness with Science' with posters displayed in the primary health care centers.
Source: CARM
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