SLP, Mexico.- The official site CubaDebate published testimonies from young Cubans about the effects that the drug known as “el chemical“, which has led them to accept a rehabilitation process.
One of the young people who offered his story for the report said that he had arrived at the rehabilitation clinic after nine years of consumption and one day, after an event that almost cost him his life, he decided to leave. addiction.
“One day I overconsumpted, it was a small suicide attempt. I woke up the next day, the suicide had failed, so I did inside and I said: ‘I need to get out of this, I looked for help in my family. I started coming to the clinic, I came to therapy, I started rehabilitation through admission and after six months I was discharged. It was hard, complicated. The first 21 days were very sad,” he said.
His beginnings occurred at a party and through friends who suggested he consume “the chemical.”
Among the arguments offered to explain his long period with drugs, he explained that there is very poor knowledge of drug addiction in the country and although they warn that it is dangerous, it is not conceived that way the first times it is ingested.
“They tell you the drug is bad, the drug kills you, yes it is true, but the first time you use it it doesn’t kill you nor do you see it as bad, so you start and start, until there comes a moment when you can’t control it. You are no longer the one who decides when to consume and where, it is the one who dominates your mind,” he said.
He described drug addiction as a “very painful disease” that “is severely affecting Cuban society.”
Another young woman said that she is only 18 years old but has been using “the chemical” since she was 15. She entered rehabilitation after having gone through a month of abstinence and the process has been a little easier for her, however: “Everyone “It’s not easy for him.”
“I get cold when I see people on the street because I’m on the street, I’m already going on long walks here and I’ve seen them that I wish I could take them by the hand and say ‘let’s go so you can recover’, but “Everyone is not the same,” he said.
In his addiction he lost his family and even the shame, he expressed: “You told me ‘hey but you did this’ and I said, ‘no, no, not me, kill me because I didn’t do it’.”
In the process he stopped talking to his parents and discovered that it was not healthy at all. “It’s not good at all, you miss a lot of things. The woman loses everything. “Women have more to lose than men.”
More and more Cubans express their concern about the drugs to which so many young people are “hooked.”
In recent months, a Cuban father, lawyer Manuel Viera, resorted to the social networks to show their concern about the increase in the sale of drug on the Cuban streets, which puts the lives of young people at risk.
In Facebookexpressed that parents, like him, do not find rest when their children go out due to constant worry due to the increase in narcotics.
The increase in sales and consumption has forced the regime to address the situation, even though it tries to minimize the fact.
Colonel Juan Carlos Poey Guerra, head of the anti-drug body of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), announced in August that there was a growing sale of drugs through social networks and the consumption of synthetic substances, such as synthetic cannabinoids, methamphetamines and opioids, particularly the chemical, was expanding.
The regime’s repressor indicated that, unlike previous years, where marijuana was the most seized drug, in 2024 the detection of cocaine has increased, and pointed out that 45 types of cannabinoids have been identified in Cuba, of the 250 that circulate globally. in various presentations.
“The Chemist” has become a case of high drug consumption in the eyes of the authorities, who boast a “zero tolerance” policy but cannot control its sale.
