Many men, like children, want one thing but not its consequences "
Ortega y Gasset.
Just as there are people who use drugs and have no trouble for it, some people do not make good use and get into problems related to such misuse . The use made of one thing indicates the type of responsibility that the subject is at stake or not. In general, the person who claims to have a drug problem, it says it has a value problem (the life, dignity, self-esteem), habits, or personal responsibility for their own elections. There are millions of people who use drugs and have no problem with that. Others Instead, when you misuse can have serious health problems, relationship or otherwise. Many drug users have problems when they recognize it, define it often mirror social discourse, ie, are considered "addicts" "addicts", "dependent", "sick," "victims" and "irresponsible" which is what institutions and professionals are typically demand. As noted, Savater: "In a society in which any waiver of the freedom of individual choice is his cousin and where no attention is paid only to those who become your problem a problem of public order, getting a drug addict is a temptation and a reasonable risk strategy but not without rewards. " [1]
People who have a problem with consumption but not shirk their responsibilities do not usually have great difficulties to resolve it. In essence, the drug issue is a matter of choice and personal freedom, if prohibiting the use also prohibition to be free. The problem occurs when the choice is made without basic knowledge in the most adverse conditions (underground, inadequate doses, impurities, harmful forms of administration, stress, ...), police chase that is, with the ban. [2]
In our experience we have seen people Consumer biographies of ten, fifteen or twenty years that continued to consume drogas mientras intentaban dejar de consumir en algún centro. Hemos visto personas que dejaban de consumir de un día para otro en el primer, segundo o tercer intento. Otras tardan meses en dejar su hábito de consumo, otras tardan años, cada caso es único. Hemos comprobado que hay personas que no quieren dejar las drogas ni hacer un uso razonable y, también, hemos visto personas que consumen drogas y que no tienen ningún problema porque el uso que hacen no es negligente. Y, cómo no, personas que desean morirse consumiendo drogas. Pero conviene no olvidar que sólo un porcentaje muy bajo de las personas que usan una droga acaban teniendo serios problemas con ella a lo largo del tiempo. [3] Most adults, as they are responsible for their own lives, they know to the extent necessary for their welfare is not damaged. The saying that "there are none so blind as those who will not see" the same happens when a person takes a drug that does not leave, shall be compelled by force or coercion, but that is not to educate or cure .
A socio-educational assessment drug on the conflict presented as fundamental ways in which person and environment interact, the symbolic place that deals drugs on the one hand, and places both (person and environment) took the other. In our practice and our analysis we have not seen problems with "addiction" or "dependency", but laws and unjust, cruel and criminal, on the one hand, and relations and elections, on the other. Mental illness (substance abuse, addiction or dependence) is produced by legal institutions and medical-psychiatric and are marked by a punitive and social control. When the subject is free can be responsible, when you have self-respect, self esteem, when it is able to analyze and understand their way of relating to things or take responsibility for his acts, drugs (gambling, food, sex, image) is no longer the embodiment of "necessary" and loses its magical attraction. Even the careless consumption generally refers to a position of the subject, the subject is a response to their environment, a conflict (language, identity, relationships, ...). Drug gives pleasure, escape, disinhibition, provides some "solution" to the subject. "And any resolution of that disagreement by illusory consciousness of reality with the ideal should resonate even in the depths of the imaginary knot narcissistic suicidal aggression. Furthermore, the illusion of appearances in which the organic conditions of intoxication, for example, can play its part, requires the consent of the elusive freedom ... ". [4]
When the negligent use of a drug leads to problems with family, health, labor or justice is often invoked the spirit of the disease, as the evil to be exorcised. Unreasonable or negligent consumption of drugs can not be cured because it is not a disease itself. Institutional cures in our area generally consist of either abstinence in force or in force a change in drugs, illegal legal. Heroin, cocaine and cannabis are switched to methadone, benzodiazepines or other. These widespread practices affecting the health, dignity and rights of citizens are cheated by the political institutions and professionals.
Drug use is a personal conflict, a contradiction, when a person decides to take responsibility negligent, if the person violates his own dignity and welfare, when it reflects an obvious lack of self esteem : when a person loses self-respect. In any case, the drug is not the problem, it's just a sign. The meaning is given by the professional and institutional discourse. But overcoming the problematic use of drugs, too, is a question of will: love is power, to a large extent, but if you want is impossible.
From an educational perspective the drug problem is a conflict of relations between institutions and individuals. Ethical conflict, civil and legal, personal dignity, self esteem, habits, the value that is given or not to life, rights, freedoms, choices and responsibilities. The consumption rate indicates how the individual relates to himself, with the rules and with their environment, profit and loss. Conflict that has to do with how the institutions involved, create, reduce or expand the conflict, the rights and freedoms.
social education from the "drug problem" in an individual perspective refers to one of values, habits, relationships and choices, not "units" refers to the ability of citizens for autonomy and personal independence. The person who has his life as a self-value and has hardly jeopardize your personal or social welfare with a negligent use of the drug. People who take their responsibilities hardly threaten their dignity, their health or their own life with a drug misuse.
[1] Savater, Fernando, "The clinical condition" ; magazine "Keys of practical reason", No. 1, 1989.
[2] op.
[3] notched, Antonio; History of drugs (3). Ed Alliance 1989.
[4] Jacques Lacan, quoted by Vera Ocampo, E. "Drugs, psychoanalysis and addiction" Edit. Paidos, Buenos Aires; Argentina.1988.
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