When in 1985 created the National Drug Plan, the map of the care of drug addicts in our country was a virtual wasteland. Nearly two decades later, we can speak of a dense and dynamic health care network in which, with the asymmetries that can be imagined, most people with problems of drug abuse are an appropriate response to their needs. The drug abusers have in common their dependence on psychoactive substances, but they differ on everything else. His biography, his family, his personality and, ultimately, all those personal and social factors related to their addiction, are quite unique. (more…)
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Throughout human history, most countries and cultures of the world have had problems with the use and abuse of drugs. The earliest annals of history record that the drugs have been used for different reasons mostly religious, medicinal and for pleasure. For example, alcohol and opium were well known for the culture of the Ancient Egyptian Empire. Cannabis was often used in ceremonial rites in the Hindu and Indian and Chinese medicine. The problems associated with drugs, therefore, are not new. 