Madinat Córdoba, the fight against drugs from prevention and intervention

The Cordovan Provincial Federation of Drug Addiction and AIDS (Madinat) has fulfilled this Thursday 25 years and he has done it with an act that has had representatives of the Junta of Andalusia and where has honored to the 19 associations that make up the federation. Your president, Miguel Garciahas claimed the Madinat’s transformative role “which is in constant growth» and has 150 programs to reach 20,000 people throughout Córdoba.

For this, their work is based on two clear bases: “the prevention and innovation», highlighted García. Regarding the first, he valued the 126 talks “that we have given to young people this year.” While in the second, work plays a key role as a “safety network for entities” to those who provide legal, labor and tax support.

Regarding prevention, the president of Madinat has insisted on importance of talks that this year have reached “more than 3,000 kids “They listen a lot, show interest and ask questions,” he stated. Something important considering that “the average age of people with drug addiction problems “It is getting lower and lower,” he warned. Furthermore, “while HIV is no longer as present, the heroin and cocaine “They are the substances that are causing the most cases,” he noted. He has also warned of the tendency of many young people “to have sex after consuming», which in many cases is a gateway to addiction.

Madinat emerged in 1999 with the objective of coordinate and provide support to different associations from the city. This is his second leg, the legal and tax guidance. “Many people have legal problems that require advice,” he recalled. Juana De la Rosa, legal advisor to the federation. She has also emphasized the importance of a work “that goes beyond the criminal issue, since many people face sanctions or renewal of titles to obtain aid or document management. And of the need to «facilitate the work of lawyers».