Diplomatura de Políticas Públicas en Salud Mental 2026 — Transcript
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- 0:02Good morning, everyone. Uh, well, we
- 0:05are here to start a new, uh, a new
- 0:08block within the framework of the
- 0:10diploma program in public health policy
- 0:13for mental health. Uh, my name is
- 0:16Mariano Rey, I am the provincial
- 0:17director of mental health and
- 0:19problematic substance use for the
- 0:21Ministry, and today we will be sharing
- 0:23this first space of this module
- 0:25together with Ariel Parajón. I am
- 0:28currently being recorded because at the
- 0:31same time that we are which is part of
- 0:41the method we use to be able to work on
- 0:43some public policy issues in mental
- 0:44health and health in general, uh,
- 0:46closer to the territories. So, that is
- 0:50a bit of the reason why I am not here
- 0:52synchronously, but rather recording
- 0:55this a little bit beforehand so that
- 0:57you can listen to it later, but I did
- 1:00not want to miss out or fail to
- 1:02participate, because we are absolutely
- 1:04convinced that these training spaces
- 1:06are not only a working method, but an
- 1:09indispensable tool to be able to build
- 1:11what we need to transform the care
- 1:14model in terms of mental health. Yes,
- 1:17today we start this module which has to
- 1:19do with addressing problematic
- 1:21substance use; uh, with a number of
- 1:23issues that we will be able to think
- 1:25about from a historical perspective,
- 1:26also situating them in a current
- 1:28context, some issues that have to do
- 1:30with conceptual definitions, but that
- 1:32also provide tools to be able to think
- 1:34about the way in which we relate to a
- 1:36problem. Yes. Uh, problematic substance
- 1:40use in the health agenda has had a very
- 1:42marginal role, I mean, very typical of
- 1:45mental health policy, uh, which
- 1:47historically has had a marginal role
- 1:49within health policies, and even more
- 1:52so problematic substance use. I mean,
- 1:56an instance in which it was something
- 1:58absolutely, uh, uh, that remained on
- 2:01the sidelines, mainly due to issues of
- 2:03a double stigma. If people with mental
- 2:07health conditions are already bearers
- 2:10of a certain stigma, imagine those
- 2:12people who, apart from going through a
- 2:14mental health situation, also have
- 2:16problematic substance use. Well, this
- 2:19is something that for health workers
- 2:22has always been a challenging horizon.
- 2:25Uh, and I have been working with this
- 2:27topic for more than 20 years and in
- 2:29countless situations, and still to this
- 2:32day, it continues to happen to us. What
- 2:34comes up is, well, what disciplinary or
- 2:36interdisciplinary tools do we need to
- 2:38be able to advance on a problem for
- 2:40which we do not have all the solutions?
- 2:42Why? Because, just like mental health
- 2:47issues, problems with substance abuse
- 2:50cannot be addressed solely through
- 2:53healthcare or medical providers; they
- 2:56generally involve many situations
- 2:59related to a social context and a
- 3:02specific territorial setting.
- 3:06Problematic substance use is not the
- 3:08same in large urban centers as it is in
- 3:10situations, for example, that we might
- 3:12encounter in the interior of our
- 3:14country or within our own province.
- 3:16Right? So, for us, it has been very
- 3:19important from the beginning in terms
- 3:21of the strategic planning of our
- 3:23Ministry of Health's healthcare agenda.
- 3:27First, by placing problematic substance
- 3:28use within mental health policies, as
- 3:30our regulatory framework on mental
- 3:32health has provided since 2010. But
- 3:35making it a reality also implies
- 3:37starting to mainstream certain issues
- 3:40and getting them circulating within a
- 3:42healthcare agenda that, for a very long
- 3:45time, as I was saying, overlooked or
- 3:47brushed aside. Yes, this involved
- 3:51changes at the training, conceptual,
- 3:53and epistemological levels, in how we
- 3:55characterize the problem, and also some
- 3:57issues that have epidemiologically
- 3:59transformed our landscape. Right? What
- 4:03do I mean by this? I mean, today we
- 4:06don't just have users experiencing
- 4:08consumption problems, with or without
- 4:11substances—and we will talk a bit
- 4:13about that—but there are also various
- 4:16implications that reach us in different
- 4:19services that aren't traditionally the
- 4:21ones closest to mental health. And this
- 4:25also has to do with some clinical
- 4:27presentations we are seeing, where
- 4:29people arrive with very severe
- 4:30subjective erosion, but also in
- 4:32conditions of extreme vulnerability. I
- 4:34mean, they are often very vulnerable
- 4:36individuals, right? And we find them,
- 4:39for example, in issues linked to
- 4:41motherhood and consumption, or pregnant
- 4:43women. And how that also impacts
- 4:47neonatal units. I mean, we have some
- 4:51provincial hospitals where 30%of
- 4:53newborns test positive for drugs. I
- 4:58mean, this is a problem that isn't just
- 5:01the snapshot where we engage with that
- 5:03pregnant woman or the newborn in the
- 5:05NICU, but it actually also has to do
- 5:07with pregnancy check-ups. I mean, with
- 5:11issues that are more linked to how we
- 5:13build, uh, either barriers, or
- 5:15accessibility, or access barriers, or
- 5:18accessibility. Uh, how do we think
- 5:20about gender issues in relation to
- 5:22these matters? Uh, but well, how do we
- 5:25also engage in dialogue without being
- 5:27compartmentalized or fragmented within
- 5:30the hospital framework, and obviously
- 5:32also regarding the more community-based
- 5:35approach or primary care level in
- 5:37problems that are extremely complex? So
- 5:40, how do we circulate and develop broad
- 5:42health teams that have different
- 5:44disciplines, some more linked to the
- 5:46field of mental health and some not
- 5:48linked to mental health, but to general
- 5:51health, articulated with other actors
- 5:53to be able to generate, as I was
- 5:54telling you, better conditions of
- 5:56accessibility on one hand, support and
- 5:59care processes on the other, and then
- 6:01the continuity or follow-up of some of
- 6:03these people's trajectories with the
- 6:05formal health system? Yes. So, the
- 6:08importance of being able to think about
- 6:11the issue of consumption in terms of
- 6:13the era, in terms of the situation, is
- 6:15invaluable. If we had to define, for
- 6:17example, all these issues that I am
- 6:19sharing with you, a bit behind on that,
- 6:21we will see them throughout the entire
- 6:23module. Yes, it is about starting to
- 6:26share with you some issues that are
- 6:27indispensable for us, but also
- 6:29difficulties that we have encountered
- 6:30along the way. Because it is also true
- 6:35that when we started our management
- 6:38process almost 7 years ago, there were
- 6:42many hospitals, to mention one issue,
- 6:46that didn't have the habit of working
- 6:49with drug users. Yes, but I told you a
- 6:53little while ago that the issue is not
- 6:55just drugs with drugs; I mean,
- 6:56problematic consumption is with
- 6:57substances. So, in terms of the era, we
- 7:01also find other phenomena that have had
- 7:03an impact and continue to have it at
- 7:06different moments or life cycles of
- 7:08people, such as what has to do with
- 7:10digital consumption, yes? Which can
- 7:14also be problematic. Those of us who
- 7:16have been working on this for a long
- 7:19time already saw the impact that social
- 7:21networks, or even before social
- 7:23networks, online games, had on the
- 7:25frameworks and ways people connect. Yes
- 7:27. Or in the ways of forming bonds and
- 7:30how that also had an impact based on
- 7:32the psychic structure of each person.
- 7:35But today, with the massification of
- 7:37some issues, it is also starting to be
- 7:39a problem that is beginning to have its
- 7:41own agenda at the level of districts
- 7:43and the different municipalities
- 7:45regarding digital consumption or
- 7:47digital well-being. I mean, we
- 7:49shouldn't just think about those who
- 7:52have problematic consumption or use of
- 7:54social media, cell phones, or anything
- 7:57related to screens, but also about how
- 8:00we build digital well-being. Right? So,
- 8:03digital consumption is part of a health
- 8:05agenda. Another issue that came up a
- 8:10lot, also linked to digital consumption
- 8:13, is online betting, which is another
- 8:16phenomenon we've been seeing lately,
- 8:19especially since the pandemic, much
- 8:22more so. Yes. And that has also had a
- 8:26very significant community impact and
- 8:29an increase in some other problems due
- 8:31to everything that the dynamics and
- 8:34logic of gambling imply. I mean, it's
- 8:37not that the issue of compulsive
- 8:39gambling is new. Yes, in fact, our
- 8:42province has 10 centers for the care
- 8:44and support of people with gambling
- 8:46problems, but it started to become much
- 8:48more widespread with the use of
- 8:50platforms, let's say. Before, when the
- 8:55issue of gambling was more linked to
- 8:57going to bingo halls or casinos or
- 9:00something like that, the physical
- 9:02barrier or how the mechanisms were for
- 9:04generating self-exclusion and so on,
- 9:07implied some dynamics that, with the
- 9:09emergence of online gambling platforms,
- 9:12and much more so with the rise of
- 9:15illegal online gambling platforms, have
- 9:17made consumption much more massive, and
- 9:21it doesn't end there. I mean, a very
- 9:24short time ago we were witnessing a
- 9:27huge platform, I would say, like a
- 9:30laboratory in relation to how this
- 9:33operating dynamic is implemented, which
- 9:36was the World Cup. I mean, when we
- 9:40watched the World Cup and saw how
- 9:43online gambling platforms were
- 9:45sponsoring it, it was something that
- 9:47became very widespread. Even the
- 9:51hydration break itself has little to do
- 9:53with hydrating people and a lot to do
- 9:55with the fact that these are the
- 9:57dynamics or moments in which bets on
- 9:59games increase exponentially. So, how
- 10:03our capitalist system and platform
- 10:06capitalism begin to acquire a very
- 10:08profound dimension that, although we
- 10:11historically associated it and thought
- 10:14that the issue of problematic
- 10:16consumption—those of us who worked a
- 10:19long time ago on the issue of legal or
- 10:22illegal drug use—also placed, uh, the
- 10:26impact that neoliberalism or capitalism
- 10:29has in its different forms of
- 10:30connection and production of
- 10:32subjectivity. Here it also becomes very
- 10:36clear with other modes of consumption
- 10:38that are substance-free, right? but
- 10:41they also generate, uh, horizons for
- 10:44constructing subjectivity, uh, and also
- 10:46have a very strong impact on
- 10:48communities. So, notice how
- 10:51consumptions are appearing that have
- 10:53historically been minimized and that
- 10:56have a very large presence today, which
- 10:59has to do with substance-free
- 11:01consumption. In that sense, uh, the
- 11:05Provincial State has generated a series
- 11:07of inter-ministerial policies, uh, that
- 11:09maybe Ariel can share a little bit more
- 11:12about now, uh, the plan that we put
- 11:14together at the provincial level to
- 11:16address gambling in adolescents. Yes,
- 11:19because we understand that, in reality,
- 11:21you cannot prohibit gambling, but you
- 11:23do have to generate very strong and
- 11:25very clear regulatory instances,
- 11:26especially to protect those who are
- 11:28most vulnerable. And in that case,
- 11:30minors are also a very important focus
- 11:32for being able to care for, uh, and
- 11:34generate strategies for care and
- 11:36accompaniment in these cases. So we
- 11:39have, uh, problematic substance-free
- 11:40consumption and problematic
- 11:42substance-based consumption. Those
- 11:44problematic substance-based
- 11:46consumptions continue to be, in all
- 11:47studies conducted at the provincial,
- 11:49national, and international levels. Uh,
- 11:52by far, uh, the ones that generate the
- 11:55most health problems are the
- 11:56consumption of legal substances. Yes.
- 12:00Uh, and illegal substance consumption
- 12:02often comes with a lot of other layers,
- 12:05uh, especially certain consumptions
- 12:07that we accompany in the health system
- 12:10for people who, in reality, uh, are
- 12:12completely disconnected. So, how can we
- 12:15go about building life projects? Uh, it
- 12:19cannot just be about healthcare and
- 12:21support; it has to be within the
- 12:23framework of an integral public policy,
- 12:25as we call it, which is different areas
- 12:27of government working simultaneously to
- 12:29be able to think about how processes of
- 12:32citizenship building are generated.
- 12:35Right? So, notice how the debates are
- 12:37very broad. The formal health system
- 12:40often does not reach those people who
- 12:42need it most and, in that sense, there
- 12:45are other instances that are
- 12:47indispensable for being able to
- 12:48articulate and generate, uh, an
- 12:50accompaniment and care flowchart, or a
- 12:53network, uh, of accompaniment and care
- 12:55that exceeds the formal system, within
- 12:59which the indispensable role of social
- 13:02organizations must be incorporated due
- 13:04to their proximity in some territories
- 13:06and the impact of their work at the
- 13:08community level, we would say, in
- 13:10general terms, but also in what has to
- 13:13do with the accompaniment processes, uh
- 13:15, at the territorial level, uh, which
- 13:17have far fewer, uh, access barriers, uh
- 13:20, when we talk about consumption issues
- 13:22. Thinking about certain public health
- 13:27criteria, such as availability and
- 13:30equity, is very, very important. I mean
- 13:35, people with problematic substance use
- 13:37usually don't come on a scheduled basis
- 13:40; if we set up a health system that
- 13:43primarily operates in the morning, and
- 13:45they are sleeping in the morning after
- 13:48long periods of consumption, it is very
- 13:51difficult for them to meet certain
- 13:53structures. Yes. How do we rethink the
- 13:57logic of the health system's entry
- 13:59points? As well as the admission
- 14:02criteria that institutions often create
- 14:05, which act as a high barrier for us to
- 14:09be able to support those who need us in
- 14:13the way that they can. Yes, because
- 14:16people arrive with what they have and
- 14:18as best they can. That is why many
- 14:21times social organizations, which have
- 14:24a much lower threshold of requirements
- 14:26than the traditional health system,
- 14:28have a better reach in some aspects
- 14:31than the health system itself. That is
- 14:35why it is important that we work
- 14:38together, not only to learn other ways
- 14:42to be more flexible, so that those who
- 14:46need us most can enter the formal
- 14:49health system, but also to build codes
- 14:52and forms of communication and
- 14:55operation that prevent fragmented work
- 14:59and ensure continuity of care, whether
- 15:04in our provincial care centers, our
- 15:07community mental health and problematic
- 15:11consumption centers, our residential
- 15:14units, or hospitals. And in that link
- 15:19with social organizations, as I
- 15:22mentioned, or other non-governmental
- 15:26organizations—the "third sector"—or
- 15:29even private institutions, we must form
- 15:33a network; otherwise, everything
- 15:37remains fragmented, which only harms
- 15:40the person who needs support. Right? So
- 15:45, we have to keep transforming, uh, our
- 15:48characterization to have a common
- 15:50language regarding problematic
- 15:52substance use and, with that, generate,
- 15:55uh, working links and operational
- 15:57dynamics that help ensure the few or
- 16:00many resources we have in each
- 16:02territory can function as articulately
- 16:05as possible, so that it doesn't come at
- 16:07the expense of our communities 'health.
- 16:11Yes. Uh, to do this, to try to approach
- 16:15and reach some point of agreement in
- 16:17terms of language, we built a, yes, a
- 16:20provincial guide for the comprehensive
- 16:23approach to problematic substance use,
- 16:26in which we placed and proposed, yes, a
- 16:29definition of problematic substance use
- 16:32to keep in mind, yes, so we can start
- 16:36thinking about levels of intervention
- 16:38at the different stages people might go
- 16:41through in a situation of problematic
- 16:43use, yes? Whether it's the initial
- 16:47intake, addressing an emergency, or
- 16:50regarding the continuity of care, some
- 16:53concrete tools to help us work along
- 16:56those lines. Always keeping in mind
- 17:00that, from the perspective of the
- 17:01provincial government, we position
- 17:03ourselves from a risk and harm
- 17:05reduction model; this does not mean,
- 17:07this risk and harm reduction model,
- 17:09that abstinence cannot be achieved in
- 17:11some cases, but rather it is about
- 17:13tailoring strategies where people are
- 17:15active participants in making decisions
- 17:17about their own health. In other words,
- 17:20nothing different from what we mean
- 17:22when we talk about informed consent, in
- 17:25a way, in action. Yes. And with the
- 17:27dynamism that this entails. Yes. Uh,
- 17:29and now I will return to this point
- 17:31because I think it is very important.
- 17:33Yes. Uh, and from there to go about
- 17:36building those forms of care, those
- 17:39care flowcharts, those equations that
- 17:41are indispensable. Why do I say this
- 17:44about informed consent? Because there
- 17:49are also many issues linked to
- 17:51criticisms of our regulatory framework
- 17:53regarding mental health which, by the
- 17:56way, we are experiencing a historic
- 17:58moment in which, (which also happened
- 18:01to us during the Macri administration,
- 18:03but it's happening again now) there is
- 18:06a desire to push for a rollback in
- 18:08regulatory terms of policy regarding
- 18:10mental health, of the regulatory
- 18:12framework in mental health and,
- 18:14fundamentally, the two groups that in
- 18:19some way raise questions regarding how
- 18:21potent the implementation of the
- 18:23regulatory framework in mental health
- 18:25has been or not. One of them has to do
- 18:28with schizophrenic family members,
- 18:30another has to do with problematic
- 18:31substance use. And why? Because it
- 18:34keeps persisting. And in this sense, I
- 18:36mean, there is a characterization that
- 18:38is real, but then the conclusion
- 18:40reached is not good. Yes. The real
- 18:43characterization is that there are
- 18:45still many barriers to access for those
- 18:47people who have problematic substance
- 18:49use, and that, in reality, you have to
- 18:52navigate the health system through its
- 18:54different components to find that, if
- 18:56you have a consumption problem, it is
- 18:58difficult to manage to build, uh, a
- 19:00space where they can feel, uh, at ease,
- 19:03comfortable, and supported. Not because
- 19:05they don't exist, they do. Yes, but
- 19:08there are many who choose not to work
- 19:09with substance use. So, that naturally
- 19:12turns into a barrier, accompanied by
- 19:15the perception of confinement as a cure
- 19:17. Right? Why do I say this? Because
- 19:21many times it is true that in some
- 19:24situations the issue of the
- 19:25voluntariness of the processes in a
- 19:28person whose life is organized around
- 19:30consumption, right?,but in reality the
- 19:33person truly has their will affected,
- 19:35which is not 100%of cases. That is
- 19:38where the dilemma lies. In which cases
- 19:42can an involuntary decision be made, or
- 19:44to make it involuntary, which is within
- 19:46the powers and possibilities of a
- 19:48healthcare team, and which ones? You
- 19:52can work with the person's will in
- 19:55building, uh, a work process that can
- 19:58gradually incorporate them in order to
- 20:02be able to start a care process. Not
- 20:05all people want to quit all substance
- 20:07use. Not all people have problematic
- 20:09substance use. I mean, of the universe
- 20:12globally, of the universe of people who
- 20:15consume, between 8 and 13%have
- 20:17problematic substance use. And those
- 20:20problematic uses also require, uh, a
- 20:24very common effort, as I was telling
- 20:29you, which are not just sanitary, but
- 20:31are, uh, from a comprehensive public
- 20:33policy. Yes. Regarding the definition
- 20:36of problematic substance use, which Ari
- 20:38can also continue to advance on now, uh
- 20:40, in a little bit, nothing for us.
- 20:43Actually, problematic substance use is
- 20:45not only compulsive use that organizes
- 20:48people's lives in relation to
- 20:50consumption, but that includes those
- 20:52types of use, but there is also, uh,
- 20:54use that due to a lack of information,
- 20:57yes, uh, ends up being problematic in
- 20:59just a single instance. Yes. Uh, for
- 21:03example, there are certain injectable
- 21:05substances where the method of
- 21:07administration becomes a problem, or
- 21:10the quantities consumed just once can
- 21:12already be problematic or even fatal at
- 21:14some point, and some other forms of
- 21:16consumption that are also, uh,
- 21:18problematic due to the context in which
- 21:21they occur. Example: episodic,
- 21:24excessive alcohol consumption or
- 21:27consuming alcohol and, uh, driving. Yes
- 21:31. Uh, what also makes it problematic is
- 21:33the behavior that goes along with it.
- 21:34Right? So, for us, problematic
- 21:37consumption would basically be any
- 21:39consumption that threatens people's
- 21:42health, right? And affects the
- 21:45realization of individual and
- 21:46collective projects. Why individual and
- 21:49collective? Because in reality, we
- 21:50cannot think of ourselves outside of
- 21:52the community in which we live. So, our
- 21:55life project is a project that is also
- 21:58a collective project, which also seeks
- 22:00ways to build it with others and from
- 22:03there return to what is important for
- 22:05each person within the framework of
- 22:07their life. So it is important that
- 22:10these forms of consumption must be
- 22:12thought of in a situational key, that
- 22:13these forms of consumption must be
- 22:15thought of in a contextual key. There
- 22:18are many care models that have been
- 22:20thought of in terms of problematic
- 22:22consumption and, in all those that
- 22:25seriously complicate, uh, the issue,
- 22:27they do not focus only on the substance
- 22:30, or only on the context, or only on
- 22:32the person, but rather they are
- 22:34interdependent variables that must be
- 22:37brought into play with each other to be
- 22:40able to think in terms of complexity.
- 22:42So, notice how in the characterization
- 22:44of the phenomenon there is already a
- 22:45complex definition. In, in, in the way
- 22:49of approaching the phenomenon, it also
- 22:51requires, uh, the value of a
- 22:54transversal policy, right? Which is not
- 22:57just a mental health policy, but
- 22:59necessarily not a security policy. Yes,
- 23:02that is the shift or the value that
- 23:03incorporating problematic consumption
- 23:05into the regulatory framework for
- 23:07mental health has had, it was to move
- 23:09it away from the logic of security. Yes
- 23:11. Uh, and when I say the logic of
- 23:13security, it doesn't just have to do
- 23:15with the criminalization it has.
- 23:18Because our regulatory framework, uh,
- 23:20in mental health, uh, is one of the
- 23:22most, uh, interesting in terms of legal
- 23:25definitions and legal framework in the
- 23:27region, but then, at the same time, we
- 23:30still have a drug law in force that
- 23:32criminalizes consumption. Uh, actually
- 23:36it doesn't criminalize consumption, but
- 23:37possession for consumption, simple
- 23:39possession for consumption. So, clearly
- 23:42, and I might be getting a bit ahead of
- 23:45myself here, but regarding the
- 23:47dimension of drug policy, if drug
- 23:50policies—and in that sense,
- 23:52prohibitionism, which is, if you will,
- 23:54the drug policy most prevalent since
- 23:57the war on drugs started in the United
- 24:00States, five decades of the war on
- 24:02drugs—have achieved that
- 24:04prohibitionism as a policy has
- 24:06abstinence, which is what I usually
- 24:10find most accurate to call the "
- 24:12sanitary arm" of prohibitionism. Yes.
- 24:16Uh, for those who don't have much
- 24:18information on this, abstinence as a
- 24:20model, the abstentionist model, is one
- 24:22that asks the person for abstinence. in
- 24:27order to achieve abstinence. In other
- 24:28words, that final goal, which is to
- 24:30achieve a person's abstinence—which
- 24:32isn't a bad goal in itself—is asked
- 24:34of the person in order to start that
- 24:36process of abstinence. Basically, you
- 24:38have to stop using to be able to
- 24:39succeed in stopping your use. And a
- 24:41huge number of people simply cannot do
- 24:44that. There are people who can stop
- 24:47using right off the bat and from there
- 24:50work on what would be the maintenance
- 24:53of abstinence. In many other cases,
- 24:56especially where social issues also
- 24:58have a direct impact, where, as I was
- 25:01saying, we aren't just thinking about
- 25:03consumption, but the concrete variables
- 25:05and subjective coordinates that cause a
- 25:08person in a specific context to have
- 25:10problematic consumption, it often
- 25:12requires accompaniment and an end point
- 25:14. So, if in our healthcare facilities
- 25:18we demand, right? the cessation of
- 25:21consumption of all substances at the
- 25:24same time, right? Uh, many times what
- 25:26we will find is that people won't be
- 25:28able to sustain it. So, the harm
- 25:31reduction model allows for the
- 25:34construction of, if you will,
- 25:36intermediate goals where abstinence is
- 25:38a possible goal to reach, but where
- 25:41some other intermediate goals can be
- 25:43set, which allows for regulation of the
- 25:46substance, right? or it also allows for
- 25:50moving from the most harmful to the
- 25:52least harmful. The risk and harm
- 25:54reduction model, as we will also see
- 25:56throughout this module, is a model that
- 25:58doesn't just have to do with the
- 26:00substance, but with all the negative
- 26:02implications that come with consumption
- 26:04, many of which are social or legal. Uh
- 26:08, I mean, today, someone who has, for
- 26:11example, uh, been caught on the street
- 26:14with three marijuana cigarettes, right?
- 26:20And they get a drug-related case filed
- 26:22against them, the impact that has on
- 26:24that person when they go out to look
- 26:26for work is huge. Why? Because one of
- 26:30the first things they ask us for, right
- 26:31? And surely, for each of us before
- 26:33starting, for example, to work in the
- 26:35health facilities we have, one of the
- 26:37things they asked for was a criminal
- 26:38record check. And if automatically what
- 26:42comes up for a person is that they have
- 26:43a criminal record for drugs, then
- 26:44they’re already left out. So, notice
- 26:48how it has nothing to do with whether
- 26:50the consumption is exacerbated or a
- 26:52matter of huge subjective devastation,
- 26:55but rather that often with much less we
- 26:58create a very, very harsh mark, right?,
- 27:00of what later builds a subject of
- 27:02impossibility. Yes. Uh, and well, so in
- 27:07that sense we have to make it a bit
- 27:08more complex, we have to make the
- 27:10equation a bit more complex and start
- 27:12thinking in a more thorough and
- 27:13significant way. Uh, well, I think
- 27:17you’re going to see a lot of these
- 27:19issues throughout the modules. I wanted
- 27:23to do a little back-and-forth on some
- 27:25issues that I do find important for us.
- 27:28The issue of problematic substance use
- 27:30is a central pillar of our first
- 27:32provincial mental health plan. It will
- 27:36also be in the second Provincial Mental
- 27:39Health Plan, which we are starting to
- 27:41work on now in consultation with the
- 27:43135 municipalities of our province,
- 27:46human rights organizations,
- 27:47non-governmental associations, and
- 27:49professional associations; and it is
- 27:52also within the general health planning
- 27:54of our provincial government. So, for
- 27:58us, the path is to register it within a
- 28:01policy that can contain it, that can
- 28:03provide a response, so they aren't just
- 28:05the CPAs, as they have historically
- 28:07been in our province, the places where
- 28:09people with problematic substance use
- 28:12were addressed, treated, and
- 28:13accompanied. It is all the providers in
- 28:17the Provincial Network for care,
- 28:18support, and attention that must give
- 28:19some level of response to consumption
- 28:21problems. Later we can see who feels
- 28:24more capable, and based on the capacity
- 28:28that is being obtained, who can start
- 28:31taking on a little more. But what we
- 28:34cannot do is say: "If you have a
- 28:36substance use situation, you only have
- 28:38to go to one place," because in reality
- 28:40it is something that, in terms of
- 28:42prevalence, in epidemiological terms,
- 28:44requires us to think about it in each
- 28:45of the providers, in each of the
- 28:47components of our health system. So
- 28:50well, that is somewhat the idea. Surely
- 28:52we will also be looking at some issues
- 28:54in historical terms and, and issues
- 28:57that also have to do with how we build
- 28:59a future perspective regarding this,
- 29:01and the dilemmas and and the challenges
- 29:03we have to be able to build a dynamic,
- 29:06deep public policy, uh, and that can
- 29:08put people and communities at the
- 29:10center. But anyway, uh we are, that is
- 29:13a bit what the module is for. What I do
- 29:16ask of you is: let's try to interrupt
- 29:19at the moments when the teachers are
- 29:22giving the class, interrupt in the
- 29:24sense of proposing comments, asking
- 29:27about concerns, because it is the only
- 29:30way we are going to go, uh, unwinding
- 29:33and also getting rid of our own
- 29:35prejudices; how we also put our own
- 29:38idiosyncrasy into play or into tension
- 29:40to be able to approach a better quality
- 29:43of care, support, and care for, our for
- 29:47our communities and for each of the
- 29:49Monarenses who requires any care
- 29:51process. So well, for the moment we
- 29:54will leave it here and well, now Ari
- 29:57will continue with you. Well, thank you
- 29:59very much.
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