Addiction Treatment Center to Open in Zapopan Informador | |
go to original July 21, 2012 |
At the end of September, 2012, the detention center for the treatment of addictions, Center of Youth Integration (ICJ), is scheduled to open in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
The Center is intended to treat men of 16 years and older.
This week, the Secretary of health in Jalisco, José Antonio Munoz Serrano, made a tour of the facilities, which are 97% complete, with outstanding details in the infrastructure and equipment.
The investment for the construction of the Center was 15 million pesos, which were granted by the Congress of the State.
The facilities is located in Periférico Norte, next to High School number 8.
In addition, two million pesos was obtained through a collaboration agreement with the federal program Seguro Popular, to ensure specialized consultation, psychological addiction treatments, general practitioners and basic surgery for inmates.
According to the Regional Coordinator of the Centro Occidente y Bajío del Sistema de los CIJ, Enrique de Jesús Aceves Arce, men dealing in this new unit will receive specialized care.
This Center joins the already existing program within the Zapopan DIF system, where women with addictions are treated and care is given for children from eight to 16 years of age.
"The units for hospitalization are treating about 280 people a year, but in each of the other units with work of outpatient consultation and prevention (six), we are talking about approximately 4,500 people that we are attending."
The ICJ rehabilitation treatments are popular among young people aged 15 to 24. Almost a third of the patients refer to using drugs in a pattern of more than three times per day.
The five addictive substances for their first contact are normally alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants and cocaine.
48.6% of young people studied by the ICJ use combined drugs.
The level of education that prevails is low: 31.1 per cent attended primary, 41.3% secondary and 3.4% has no educational instruction and can not read or write.
The new unit of the Centros de Integración Juvenil will have 50 beds for internment of up to 400 people per year. The treatment lasts between 28 days up to three months, which is the average time of an addiction rehabilitation.
Although the most widely consumed illicit drugs in Jalisco are marijuana and cocaine, heroin addiction began to increase in a worrying way. The Centros de Integración Juvenil (ICJ) projected an agreement with the State Council for the prevention of AIDS (Coesida), and the creation of a specific space for the treatment of heroin addicts, through a powerful drug called methadone.
This would be the first clinic of the ICJ in the West specialized in treatment of this addiction. There are three in the Mexican Republic, and in border towns like Juárez, Tijuana and Mexicali.
According to the Regional Coordinator, Enrique de Jesús Aceves Arce, in recent years the Centers have began to increase treatments for people addicted to heroin, from some cities in Michoacan, Sahuayo and Jiquilpan. However, they are already beginning to have more cases of drug addicts in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara and the neighborhoods of San Juan de Dios y de la Vieja Central Camionera.
This increase in addiction adds to the possibility of contracting HIV, with the possibility of contaminated needles being used for injections. The treatment with methadone has reflected greater effectiveness in patients.
Of the 575 addiction cases studied in the ICJ of Jalisco, 3.1% spoke of having used drugs intravenously, and of them, 16.9% said they shared a syringe during the process.
Translated by Team Angels
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