The government plan plans to revitalize consultations for young consumers, which often make it possible to avoid the spiral of dependence.
France is the European champion in cannabis consumption. In 2011, 6.5% of young people aged 17 used it regularly. It is therefore not surprising that one of the flagship measures of the government plan to combat drugs and addictive behavior concerns cannabis.
The Interministerial Mission for the Fight against Drugs and Drug Addiction (Mildt) has indeed decided to revitalize consultations for young consumers (CJC). These places dedicated to cannabis consumers, created in 2005, have proven their effectiveness, but “it remains poorly identified by healthcare and education professionals on the one hand, and the intervention methods are disparate, on the other hand. “Beyond making these CJCs better known, the government wants them to welcome young consumers early, before they are installed in the addiction. Parents will also be welcome since family therapy will be offered in these structures.
Listen to Jean-Pierre Couteron, President of the Addictions Federation: “There are millions of young people who use drugs, but not all of them need heavy psychotherapy. “
No less than 400 consultations for young consumers are now established in the region. Their mission is to welcome young people but they will also have to reach out to these cannabis users. “It means going out to meet the adults who surround them and supervise them,” explains Jean-Pierre Couteron. And we must lower the threshold. Young people must be able to come without recognizing themselves as sick, without having made a request for weaning. In 2005, when they were created, this was precisely the ambition of the CJCs. So, nothing very innovative in the new plan of the Mildt. But for professionals like the president of the Addictions Federation, “when is a major reform. We don’t need to reinvent the butter-cutting wire. The tools that make it possible to identify problematic consumption upstream, they must be used. Today, we favor prevention over repression ”.
In the same vein, the Mildt plan wants to allow liberal doctors to play a greater role in the detection of high-risk consumption, thanks to a tool which has proved its worth, “early identification and brief intervention”. This questionnaire allows doctors to systematically question all their patients about their consumption of alcohol, tobacco or even cannabis.
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