VIDEO| Cannabis alarm among minors: even children aged 9-10 years use it

Magi (Omceo Rome): "Today 25% of our children use drugs. We must act as a link between the Ministry of Health and the population"

ROME – “Today is the first step that concerns all addictions. We started with the so-called ‘soft’ drugs, which as we saw during the conference are not light, but in addition to this we will set in motion each time a activity similar to this regarding the use of alcohol, smoking, gambling addiction, the use of devices by children in an abnormal manner. These are the things that we must highlight as the Medical Association as a subsidiary body of the State.” . This was explained to the Dire agency by the president of the Order of Doctors-Surgeons and Dentists of the Province of Rome, Antonio Magi, on the sidelines of the conference entitled ‘Youth addictions: dimensions of the phenomenon and prevention strategies for a correct lifestyle. The Order of Doctors of Rome takes to the field’. Organized today by the Capital’s Omceo in the ‘Roberto Lala’ Hall, the event also received the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

“We must act as a trait d’union – continued Magi – between the Ministry of Health and the population to try to be increasingly active as possible and therefore create the conditions of advantage and prevention that they are necessary. Everything that was talked about today – he then highlighted – and we talked about addictions, can be prevented by informing citizens at the moment there are alarming data relating to the use of these drugs such as cannabis by children aged nine or ten. It is a dramatic number that worries us Today 25% of our children still use drugs: it is a truly very alarming situation and therefore the Order of doctors come into play precisely to try to avoid a situation that then becomes out of control. So prevention is better than cure”.