Danièle Jourdain-Menninger, president of the MILDT (the interministerial mission for the fight against drugs and drug addiction) presented today the first part of the government plan to fight against drugs and addictive behaviors which is programmed over four years (2014 -2017). This first plan will have a budget of 59 million euros and more specifically targets “” young people whose consumption of alcohol and cannabis threatens their health and social integration “, underlined the president of the MILDT.
The interministerial mission wants in particular to act against occasional significant alcoholizations, called “binge drinking” which affect more than half of high school students. The Mildt wishes to develop partnerships with universities to encourage certain students to become “referents” during festive evenings in order to encourage their classmates to drink less.
The plan also targets young drug users by developing the training of professionals responsible for identifying addictive behaviors as early as possible and promoting the Young consumers consultations (CJC), created in 2005 but which have not yet been known (if at all).
But the Mildt also thinks of the parents of users, often distraught, and for example plans to open a dedicated telephone line.
Women, second target after young people
The plan also targets “pregnant women who still consume alcohol and tobacco too regularly during pregnancy; women drug users who exclude themselves from care for fear of being stigmatized as well as those most distant from devices for geographical or social reasons “. For the latter, Mildt is counting on experimentation with lower-risk consumption rooms, with the further desire to reach more disadvantaged neighborhoods. While the Parisian “shoot room” has still not opened its doors, the president of the interministerial mission announced that the government was working on a bill that would allow this room to be opened. She is also thinking of opening “a second or even a third consumption room in other French cities if the conditions are met”.
