On the international day to combat drugs we need to talk about prevention!

already says the saying "preventing is better than remedy"! We speak, we watched in the media, we witness in the family, in the neighbor's house, many situations about drug use, including socially accepted as alcohol, which result in traffic accidents, domestic violence, placing the user life and others in risk. Is it possible to prevent from the small shares indoors?

Most of the time we face the problem when the bomb has already burst. Should we work fighting the use of drugs only in June? The prevention action needs to be daily, in families, schools, universities, clubs, religious centers, in line with society. In addition to opportunizing spaces that prioritize health, it would be important to strengthen prevention with effective actions such as: education, sport, theater, reading, dance, contact with nature and activities that strengthen mental health.

Repression is not synonymous with prevention, is the limit of intolerance of acts that have not been prevented. They say that drugs expire for lack of opponents. It is important to reflect that the opponents of this current evil, pass through each of us. What actions are we effectively conducting to prevent the consequences of drug use?

We can then understand that prevention is not only to show our children and adolescents the tragedies that occur as consequences of drug use, or say, that is ugly and kills people, it is much more than that, preventing is Valuing life, is highlighting the essential values for individuals' relationship, strengthen protection spaces such as family, school and social environment. Prevention is to help the human being to develop the most worthy side of oneself and evolve as a person.

Article written by psychologist Elaine Cristina de Oliveira.

Elaine Cristina de Oliveira - Psychologist, Specialization in Systemic Psychotherapy Individual, Family and Couple (CEFI), Manager of the Marta and Mary Therapeutic Community, Counselor of the Brazilian Federation of Therapeutic Communities (Febrat), Delegated representative of the South Febrac, member of the CEFI chemical dependence core.