“Uruguay owes a debate. He faces a Hamletian dilemma: if he wants a National Drug Board and why he wants it. The allocation of resources that the Rendering of Accounts assigns to the JND is, notoriously, insufficient even to cover the deficits that we have with the programmed execution”, considered the hierarch Daniel Radío.
The head of the JND stated that a greater endowment of $102,000,000 is required for the minimum operation of the institution.
Radio stated that it was heard in the Integrated Budget Commission with the Treasury, assuring that they trust “in the good disposition of the legislators.”
Likewise, he pointed out that if the items are not increased, the board must constantly request reinforcements, not to reinforce, but to fulfill the commitments it had assumed. He explained that due to insufficient resources, planning is null.
“Sometimes, from civil society we are asked for more activities, more campaigns, centers and, when it comes time to define those resources, in other articles of the Surrender, those resources are destined for other institutions.”
After clarifying that he was not referring to the Ministry of the Interior when pointing out that there are items destined to the coverage of people with problematic consumption derived from other subsections, he affirmed that the items assigned to the portfolio are the necessary ones.
“It is a definition that society has to make in terms of where the resources linked to people with problematic substance use go and what role society defines for the JND. Those are the discussions that we have to give and that are ontological”, said the head of the Board.
He reported that the JND maintains a center and collaborates with other institutions to support three more, although more cannot be created because “there are items for the creation of centers, but assigned to other resources.”
“There is potential, you have to work and wait for resources to appear because Uruguay is going to be proud of
