With the motto: "Enough! No more young people lost through drugs! Let's do something!" a group of priests, lay people and personalities committed to helping young people, have come together and drawn up a document which was presented at a press conference by Fr Di Paola and the Diocesan Pastoral Delegates on Addiction, when they met at the Dominic Savio Salesian House in Ramos Mejía, not far from Buenos Aires.
"We do not want drugs in our environment and we support all efforts for their eradication. We realize that it would be good also to look at the financial circuits that make it possible," the document says.
In this context, the Pastoral Team on Addiction says: "Definitely, we do not agree with the libertarian policies that support the right to cultivate, possess or consume drugs, because we realize that not all people are in the same situation and we see that for young people who have no opportunities in life, these actions may prove very costly.”
Drug use among teens is "very high" and has grown in recent years and the perception of the risk of facing occasional use of these substances is now rated "very low". This explains why many parents and educators have stopped insisting that "the use of drugs is a real plague."
According to Aid to the Church in Need, “drugs continue to spread among young people and not just among teenagers, even children under the age of 10 have already begun using drugs."
Faced with this scourge we can only say: "Enough! No more young people lost through drugs!”
