Gabriel Tejerina Esplá, coordinator of the Control Club Association, and Pepa Sivera, Councilor for Social Welfare and Prevention of Addictions, have jointly presented the campaigns for awareness and prevention of addictions that will be held in Dénia between July and October of this same year. In addition to continuing the campaigns developed in previous years as If you spend you miss, Stories Botellón y With coca, do not RayesThis year will be introduced as a new campaign Alcohol can wait and it shall be aimed at reinforcing the fact say no to the first consumption of alcohol. Therefore, the latter program will be developed in conjunction with the secondary schools of Dénia. Tejerina and Sivera have wanted to stress its intention to raise awareness of drug use both youth and adults, as these also should be aware of the process of addiction to various substances.
The prevention action plan will begin on July 7, in full Festivals, with the campaign Stories Botellón and will continue in August with With coca, do not Rayes. Having reached the winter months fighting addictions dianenses continue in the schools. In addition, Pepa Sivera added that the Department of Prevention of Addictions develop parallel campaigns, as Menys Graus, problemes menys or campaign DiscoSanaWhich began on June 29 and involving, inter alia, the distribution in various local brand-pages containing information about different drugs, forms of use and its effects.
The balance of the campaigns carried out the previous year, according to the Controla Club association, is highly positive. There were 739 new registrations, 1035 young people completed different questionnaires on alcohol consumption and intervention was carried out on all the young people who attended 3rd year of ESO last year in the Public Institutes and Concerted Schools of the capital of La Marina Alta. From the contacts with young people, relevant data was extracted, that the average age at which one begins to attend botellones is 14,4 years (higher than the average of the Valencian Community, which is 13,8 years). and that 14,3% of the total of those who admit to drinking bottles do not drink alcohol. In addition, the respondents indicated an average of 3,53 out of 4 regarding their predisposition to not drive under the influence of alcohol and 3,25 regarding the establishment of a non-drinking driver.
