Havana/Tunas has become another epicenter of drugs on the island and the increase in registered cases, which experienced a peak from the second half of 2024, is starring the chemicalwhich has left two dead. Of the more than 500 consultations made last year by toxicology in the province, 80% was due to narcotics abuse and the most frequent ages were between the ages of 13 and 17, although the case of a child who initiated consumption was known With only eight years.
He chemicala synthetic cannabinoid mixed with all kinds of medications, it arrives mainly to the hands of adolescents. Jorge Rueda Gómez, psychologist of the territory addiction service, makes clear the situation in an interview with Newspaper 26 Published on Wednesday: the authorities have done their best to stop the increase of consumers but, laments the specialist, “the trend persists” and “leans towards consumption of the consumption of the chemicalmarijuana and some controlled medications such as tramadol and carbamazepine. ”
Health facilities have already begun to receive serious cases of substance abuse, such as the first consumer of methamphetamines – which bought them thinking they were the chemical– Or the first addict pregnant who, with just 16 years, tried to commit suicide after not getting a curettage in hospitals. His “husband” – the official press does not comment on the fact that she is married at such an early age – is also “drug polynsumor.”
Nor do the doctors know what to stick to the situation of the teenager. “Given this first case of a consumer pregnant woman, the extreme child’s child care program, but many questions jump, what will the baby’s neurodevelopment, its motor, cognitive abilities? It constitutes a challenge for neonatology, and we have to be prepared to help her and, in addition, to receive her child who can even suffer a withdrawal syndrome. This is already the reality of the province ”, Zanja Alejandro Mestre Barroso, the main specialist in toxicology in the province.
Nor do the doctors know what to stick to the situation of the adolescent
The doctor warns of the ability of narcotics to alter the genetics of fetuses. They can “go to the gene, modify it and transmit it genetically. That is, this phenomenon not only remains in consumption, it is also transmitted to offspring, ”even creating schizophrenia patterns.
There have also been two deaths associated with the consumption of narcotics, one for direct cause – the increase in heart rate and blood pressure caused the consumer a stroke – and another indirect, the buyer argued with the trafficker, which ended up assaulting it. None of the eight municipalities of the province escapes the increase in consumption, although it is especially concentrated in the header city.
The arrival of chemical It has caused a state of “alarm” among health authorities. “Give The General Directorate of Health.
He chemicalthat “it has settled with alevosía in the tuneral streets”, it even forced the authorities to organize a first provincial addiction workshop in January and in other provinces the arrests of traffickers have also been published in profiles related to the ruling party as a WARNING FORM.
The “chimiqueros”, as consumers of this drug are defined who end up living in a hospital while the treatment lasts, have already become frequent patients in the health centers of Las Tunas. The province even enabled a hall ad hoc with 17 beds that share alcoholics and drug addicts.
“It is very difficult to put aside addictions, hence the importance of not starting in this habit”
“It is very difficult to put aside addictions, hence the importance of not starting in this dangerous habit. From the fourth hour of suspending consumption, important symptoms appear such as anxiety, despair, insomnia, aggressiveness. That’s where the most nefarious effects are. They begin to feel alterations in the skin, hallucinations, nightmares and work at the psychotic level, scratching madness, ”explains one of the specialists.
After the stay in this center, about three weeks, patients face a “difficult social recovery,” and many fall. The doctor does not deny that the return to consumption, especially after a few days of treatment, is frequent: “Effective rehabilitation is what hits us most. There are action protocols for the time of relapses, but we have to get to know and apply from the health areas or we will not manage to overcome this battle. ”
In particular, Newspaper 26 Rescue the story of a teenager who arrived at the center with “the battered body between the appliances of strange symptoms, asking for help to shout.” Had begun to consume the chemical being “practically a child, in the neighborhood.” In his worst week, he spent more than 40,000 pesos in the drug and consumed more than “10 lines” per day.
“He told his mother that he felt he was going to go crazy and she gave him the money for fear of going out and crazy. He became addicted to tachycardia, ”says the newspaper, who adds that in the end it was his mother who took him” almost on track “to seek help.
The therapy and days of abstinence, however, did not last long, and the official press does not ask if the case, quite common as stated, is due to the limited rehabilitation system. “The return to the home was a hotbed of temptations … the new prices: the chemical At 300 pesos and the marijuana cigar at 500, they swept the money by hand, and when there was no longer where to get out, at about 10:30 in the morning, and snatched the phone from a lady, The view of all. He turned 19 held in the Provincial Penitentiary Center. ”
