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The mayor, Domingo Aranda, and President of Project Man, Jesus Hernandez, have done today balance of care provided to people with drug problems in Caravaca de la Cruz, next to the Councillor for Social Development, Carmen Ruiz, and the coordinator therapeutic partnership, Asuncion Santos.
According to the annual Man Project, during the past year in the center of Caravaca attention was given to 43 people with problems related to addiction, and other 47 people who came to seek information and advice.
Regarding the users served by Proyecto Hombre in Caravaca about 70% had cocaine, 18% alcohol and approximately 10% had problems with pathological gambling.
Aranda said Sunday that the City of Caravaca has a collaboration agreement with Project Man because "we consider it an important and vital service for people with addiction problems and their families."
Meanwhile, the mayor Carmen Ruiz explained that the agreement allows Man Project has a permanent place in the Training and Employment Center, next to the garden of The Cejo, preventing continuous travel to Murcia users for treatment.
Jesus Hernandez stated that "the problems faced by users are often just as serious: economic, health and family, so it offers a program of treatment for these problems, but always from the basis that the person is able to overcome, to support their addiction. "
These treatments also provides care and support to families, although the couple, either the parents or other relatives, as they become fundamental in supporting the recovery process of the person.
Asuncion Santos Pascual, coordinator therapy, has emphasized the importance of going as soon as possible to seek help from professionals such as Project Man to not let the problem becomes chronic for years, since the less there is delayed rehabilitation better prospects of recovery.
Regarding the gender of the persons served, men remain the majority in this type of treatment, only 9% of beneficiaries are women, although from the institution that is not only remembered because fewer women have addiction problems than men but often have more difficulty recognizing the problem and seek treatment, due to the stigmatization of women consumers.
From Man Project also remember that the basis of all the work for addiction prevention programs are involved with younger elementary students, high school or even the initial professional qualification programs, which from these programs taught to face a life without addiction, in a healthy and mature.
From this conviction Human Project and the City of Caravaca have always worked to provide these prevention programs in schools of the municipality and those who have benefited in recent years, several hundred students from different schools in the municipality and its families who have participated in several workshops for parents of teenagers.
These workshops provide parents with different tools to help in educating their teens, working in the prevention of addictive behaviors.
About Man Project
Murcia Man Project is an NGO that has worked in the region 17 years and has adapted its services to the needs of society demanded Murcia.
Currently offers some treatment programs to suit different profiles: programs for dysfunctional person profile, people who have an apparently normal life, specific programs for women, treatment for addictions to gambling, with specific attention to young addictions, smoking cessation, and also works in the field of prevention, understanding that prevention in young people is one of the main pillars in the fight addiction in a society.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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