EXTRA SERIES 43 NARCOTICS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL ISSUE NARCÓTICOS: PROBLEMAS Y SOLUCIONES PARA ESTE PROBLEMA MUNDIAL EM AD IA C S A C I A E I N The Pontifical Academy of Sciences C T I I F A I R T Casina Pio IV • Vatican City • 23-24 November 2016 V N M O P PAS EXTRA SERIES 43 NARCOTICS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL ISSUE NARCÓTICOS: PROBLEMAS Y SOLUCIONES PARA ESTE PROBLEMA MUNDIAL The Pontifical Academy of Sciences Casina Pio IV • Vatican City • 23-24 November 2016 Contents Introduction 7 | Introducción 9 | Address of His Holiness Pope Francis 13 | Discurso del Santo Padre Francisco 17 | H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden Speech 21 | Discurso de S.M. la Reina Silvia de Suecia 25 | Programme 30 | List of Participants 33 | Final Statement 34 | Declaración final36 | Summary 39 | Resumen 53 ... investing in education, prevention, health care, addiction treatment and, in certain “ cases, alternatives to incarceration would do more to end the drug trade than relying primarily on the criminalization of the victims. ” PAS, VATICAN CITY NARCOTICS: PROBLEMS AND 7 CASINA PIO IV, 23-24 NOVEMBER 2016 SOLUTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL ISSUE Introduction W Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo ollowing a special wish of Pope Francis, the Our workshop intends to focus specifically on the Pontifical Academy of Sciences organized a scientific aspect, presenting the consequences of Ftwo-day Workshop on Narcotics: Problems and substance abuse (both soft and hard drugs) on our Solutions of this Global Issue on 23-24 November bodies and brains, as well as the potential medical uses 2016. The current system to be examined presents of certain drugs for specific diseases and disorders. numerous aspects: the history of drug use from a Other aspects discussed include the illicit and relatively cultural and geopolitical point of view, the different easy production of drugs (in cities, slums, and in the types of substances, the centres of production and countryside); strategies that fight the conditions fostering distribution and consumer typologies. Particular the use of drugs; exploitation of young children in attention will be devoted to prevention of substance criminal organizations that distribute narcotics; and abuse related to children and young people. effects of soft drugs legalization on our society. Today, substance abuse problems are undeniably topical, Leading professionals, scientists, experts, medical since drugs are one of the scourges of our globalised doctors, researchers, practitioners, members of civil world, despite the enormous resources employed all society, judges and our Academicians are invited by the over the world to fight drug trafficking and production. PAS to examine and discuss possible innovative socio- The UNODC1 conservatively estimated that in 2013, political solutions to these drug-related issues. the most recent year for which data is available, 246 Our goal is to reach a consensus that investing in million people worldwide, or 1 out of 20 individuals education, prevention, health care, addiction treatment between the ages of 15 and 64, used an illicit drug, and, in certain cases, alternatives to incarceration would an increase of 3 million people over the previous year. do more to end the drug trade than relying primarily on More alarmingly, 27 million people were characterized the criminalization of the victims. as “problem drug users.” Only 1 out of every 6 of these problem users had access to any sort of addiction 1 Available online: https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2015/ treatment. World_Drug_Report_2015.pdf … la inversión en educación, en prevención, en cuidado de la salud, en tratamientos “ contra las adicciones y, en ciertos casos, en alternativas al encarcelamiento resultaría mucho más eficaz que la simple penalización de las víctimas. ” PAS, CIUDAD DEL VATICANO NARCÓTICOS: PROBLEMAS Y SOLUCIONES 9 CASINA PIO IV, 23-24 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2016 PARA ESTE PROBLEMA MUNDIAL Introducción W Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo n respuesta a un deseo especial del Papa 1 de cada 20 personas entre las edades de 15 y 64 Francisco, la Pontificia Academia de las Ciencias años – utilizaron una droga ilícita, lo que representa Eorganiza un taller sobre Narcóticos: problemas un aumento de tres millones de personas respecto al y soluciones para este problema mundial, que año precedente. Pero lo que es aún más alarmante es se realizó en la Casina Pío IV los días 23 y 24 de que 27 millones de personas han sido caracterizadas noviembre de 2016. La situación actual que queremos como “consumidores problemáticos de drogas”. examinar presenta numerosos aspectos: la historia del Asimismo, solo uno de cada seis de esos consumidores consumo de drogas desde un punto de vista cultural problemáticos ha tenido acceso a algún tipo de y geopolítico, los diferentes tipos de sustancias, los tratamiento de su adicción. centros de producción y de distribución, y las tipologías Nuestro taller se enfoca principalmente en el aspecto de consumidores. Haremos especial hincapié en la científico, presentando las consecuencias del abuso prevención del abuso de sustancias por parte de los de drogas (tanto las “blandas” como las “duras”) en el niños y de los jóvenes. cuerpo y el cerebro, así como explorando los posibles Hoy en día, los problemas de abuso de sustancias usos medicinales de ciertas sustancias para curar son de una actualidad innegable, ya que las drogas enfermedades y trastornos específicos. Otros aspectos constituyen uno de los mayores flagelos de nuestro que también se consideran son: la producción ilícita y mundo globalizado, a pesar de los cuantiosos recursos relativamente sencilla de ciertas drogas (en ciudades, empleados en todo el mundo para combatir el tráfico y barrios marginales, y campos); las estrategias para la producción de estupefacientes. combatir aquellas condiciones que favorecen el uso de La Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el drogas; la explotación de los niños en las organizaciones Delito (UNODC, por sus siglas en inglés)1 estima que criminales que distribuyen estupefacientes, y los efectos en 2013, el año más reciente para el cual hay datos, de la legalización de las llamadas drogas blandas en 246 millones de personas en todo el mundo – es decir, nuestra sociedad. 10 NARCÓTICOS: PROBLEMAS Y SOLUCIONES PAS, CIUDAD DEL VATICANO INTRODUCCIÓN PARA ESTE PROBLEMA MUNDIAL CASINA PIO IV, 23-24 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2016 Además de nuestros Académicos, destacados tal sentido, parecería que la inversión en educación, profesionales, científicos, expertos, médicos, en prevención, en cuidado de la salud, en tratamientos investigadores, miembros de la sociedad civil y jueces contra las adicciones y, en ciertos casos, en alternativas han sido invitados por la Pontificia Academia de las al encarcelamiento resultaría mucho más eficaz que la Ciencias para que entre todos examinen y discutan simple penalización de las víctimas. innovadoras soluciones sociopolíticas que puedan resolver las antedichas cuestiones relacionadas con las drogas. En definitiva, el objetivo es llegar a un consenso sobre 1 Disponible en línea: http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2015/ la mejor manera de poner fin al tráfico de drogas. En World_Drug_Report_2015_Spanish_.pdf INTRODUCCIÓN PAS, CIUDAD DEL VATICANO NARCÓTICOS: PROBLEMAS Y SOLUCIONES 11 CASINA PIO IV, 23-24 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2016 PARA ESTE PROBLEMA MUNDIAL Drugs have inflicted a deep wound on our society and ensnared many people in “ their web. Many victims have lost their freedom and have been enslaved to them; enslaved by an addiction we could call “chemical”. ” PAS, VATICAN CITY NARCOTICS: PROBLEMS AND 13 CASINA PIO IV, 23-24 NOVEMBER 2016 SOLUTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL ISSUE Address of His Holiness Pope Francis The Pontifical Academy of Sciences Thursday, 24 November 2016 Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, to be healed. The dignity of the person is what we are called to seek out. They continue to possess, more than cordially greet each of you and I thank the President ever, a dignity as children of God. of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his kind It should come as no surprise that so many people I words. fall into drug addiction because worldliness offers Drugs have inflicted a deep wound on our society and us a wide range of opportunities to enjoy passing ensnared many people in their web. Many victims have pleasures, which in the end are nothing but poisons lost their freedom and have been enslaved to them; that corrode, corrupt and kill. Step-by-step, a person enslaved by an addiction we could call “chemical”. begins to destroy himself and to destroy everything This is undoubtedly a “new form of slavery” alongside around him. The initial desire to flee, to seek out several others that afflict individuals and society in a moment of happiness, is transformed into the general today. destruction of the entire person, with repercussions at Clearly there is no single cause of drug addiction. every level of society. Rather, there are many factors that contribute to For this reason, it is important to acknowledge the it, among which are the absence of a family, social problem of drugs — that they are destroyers, they pressures, the propaganda of drug dealers, and the are essentially destroyers — and, above all, how desire for new experiences. Every drug addict has widespread are their centres of production and how a unique personal story and must be listened to, broad their systems of distribution; the networks understood, loved, and, insofar as possible, healed that cause the death of a person: not a physical and purified. We cannot stoop to the injustice of death, but a psychic, social death. It amounts to categorizing drug addicts as if they were mere objects “throwing away” a person. These vast networks or broken machines; each person must be valued and involve people who hold positions of responsibility appreciated in his or her dignity in order to enable them in society, in governments and in families.
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