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People, drugs and behaviors with potential for abuse: an open cartography for a local strategy

abstract

Throughout 2016, the Drug Addiction Area of the Town Council of Portugalete (Bizkaia) prepared its 4th Municipal Plan on Drugs. The new Plan includes the approaches arising from the participatory process entitled “Hacking the prevention of drug addiction” undertaken from 2012 to 2015, and completed with other meetings with various local agencies in areas relating to the subject of the Plan. The proposal called “People, drugs and behaviors with potential for abuse – an open cartography for a local strategy 2017-2026”, bases its model and dynamics for intervention on citizen participation.

Keywords:

Citizenship, community participation, empowerment, drug abuse prevention.

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Authors

Juan Carlos Melero Ibáñez - Psicólogo y máster en drogodependencias. Especialista en prevención
Marta Azkarretazabal Mendiguren - Ayuntamiento de Portugalete
Raimundo Parreño Martínez - Ayuntamiento de Portugalete