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Drug abuse community prevention: opening the social policies’ code to the citizen’s participation

abstract

After years of decline, community participation in drug policies takes on a new rise in line\r\nwith some of the most relevant changes and advances in the social sciences in recent times.\r\nCommunity health as framework, personal and citizen empowerment as aim, and participation\r\nto define priorities and policies in the field of drug abuse prevention as methodological process,\r\nare the main features of a model that requires the training of technical teams and the training of\r\npeople who are motivated to participate. A formation that, in both cases, in addition to specific\r\ncontent on drug abuse prevention must address the strategies, dynamics and tools that enable\r\nsuccessful participation to strengthen a sense of belonging. We introduce the “Hacking drug\r\nprevention” experience, which has tried to realize these criteria.

Keywords:

Citizenship, civil society, community participation, empowerment, drug abuse prevention.

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Author

Juan Carlos Melero - Psicólogo y máster en drogodependencias. Especialista en prevención.