Addictions in Tucumán: A real problem

People have a lot of different addictions here in Tucumán. The term addiction is used to describe a physiological problem that makes you be addictive to something such as: drugs, gambling, video games, smoking, alcohol, and even study, work and sports can be addictive.

In our city, the most common addictions are alcoholism, smoking, and drug addiction. The last one is very common all over the world. Drug addiction affects not only the addicted ones but all the society. A lot of people use them and it doesn’t matter if they have money or not. Drug addicted can do a lot of extreme things (stealing and even killing) in order to get the money to buy drugs and consume it. This addiction is one of the main causes of insecurity in Tucumán.
Tucumán is not an isolated place where drugs are sold and consumed. As per statistics, Argentina is a transshipment country for cocaine headed for Europe especially in the Tri-Border Area; a source for precursor chemicals, increasing domestic consumption of drugs in urban centers, especially cocaine base. (Source: NATIONMASTER.com)

Other very common addiction is smoking. People generally start smoking at the teen age. Then they become addicted and they continue smoking until the day they die. Last studies show us that in Argentina there are 50 thousands deaths because of smoking. So be intelligent and don’t even try it!

Other consequence of addictions is that people have lost families, homes, cars, and all because gambling! These addictions make you start betting some money that you have and then you bet more and more and when you finish the game you don’t have more belongings to bet.

Alcoholism is a very common addiction too. Here in Tucumán people start drinking at the age between 13 and 16 years old. They get drunk at parties and they start doing wrong things, (such as fighting) all because they have drunk. But they are not only teens the ones that drink. There are a lot of old men and women that cannot leave the alcohol and they spend a lot of money in it. Some studies shows us that in our country the 69,5% of the teenagers drinks alcohol, but only the 14,9% at least once declared to have arrived at the ebriedad. They have also been asked where they drunk and the 53% said that they drunk at parties and celebrations.
(Source: med.unne.edu.ar)

Some other addictions are affecting our society nowadays; one example is video games addiction. Some young kids know how to play a game in the computer before knowing how to read or write. Some of them enter to the school without reading and writing but they know how to win the Play Station game. This addiction will affect societies all around the earth in a near future.

In summary, addictions are very dangerous. And with this article I hope to make a change in the society and make people realize about what is happening nowadays in our city and all over the world. And remember: all extremes are bad.