Today directly in the national scenario, there is talk of human rights to the drug phenomenon, there is an experience of implementing public programs for risk reduction and damage to users of substances in some cities, joints and investigations to understand the phenomenon in a broad way, organizations of users of psychoactive substances with political commitment; Just to name some difficult advances to imagine 40 years ago, however, prohibitionism is far to be overcome as a hegemonic approach to the subject, an example of them is as different research continue to demonstrate the presence of stigma towards users of psychoactive substances in health personnel, the faculties of Medicine and Psychology continue to form in abstinence as the only possibility of intervention and the police treatment of users continues to be a constant in the country.
The advancement of human rights in the drug issue has so far managed to propose an open discussion in social terms, between the approaches of public health and human rights in contrast prohibitionism and war. Achievements that have been possible at the expense of work different sectors (Academy, Social Organizations, Users Organizations of Government Substances and Entities among others) allowing currently having an accumulated investigative, health and politician work despite the imposition of prohibitionism as an ideology.
New challenges arise in relation to the advances obtained, since the progress is still limited in relation to the necessary results. The strength of prohibitionism is understandable in political and economic terms, since it is a condition for drug trafficking to be profitable, in addition there is the weight of the construction of moral loads produced by more than 50 years of global prohibitionist propagand Less explicit that can lead to limit the progress achieved, as they have been in Colombia private companies that have done prohibitionism opposing it.
This great achievement of different sectors that has been the opening of the debate on psychoactive substances in society and finding an important grip in the current National Drug Policy, runs the risk of being monopolized and limited, is the opening of this conversation in social terms the main achievement, since it is the possibility of disassembling the ideological criteria of the war against drugs today hegemonic today in the national and international scenario. The work implies the democratic deepening of the debate, the participation of the different actors and not the closing of the democratic discussion to business sectors presented as flag bearers, gurus or exclusive authorized voices of the subject.
It is profitable to offer services from another perspective, in a world that is turning to understand that the war on drugs is not useful (which in principle is not problematic), however what these companies have seen is that in the style of drug trafficking they seek Its exclusive and unique reading about drugs for commercial purposes.
Companies like these are presented as the only authorized voices to talk about the subject, address health education as a marketing practice, present academic discussion as finished and become a ballast for progress as a society in the issue of drugs. We will not launch much more if we do not recognize that the fundamental thing achieved until today is the opening of the debate, the same opening that allowed to reach a different drug policy in the country. What corresponds to us as a society is to collapse prohibitionism, not open a window to rent it as the drug trafficking. While the progress of other sectors is mine due to the smallness of a contract.
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