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The Department of Social Services and Immigration within the Municipal Plan 2012 drug prevention, among other activities, has conducted the workshop "BUILDING HEALTH" during the month of November.

The workshop "Building Health" offers educational community prevention strategy appropriate to the Spanish, not only of drug use in early adolescence, but also of antisocial behavior.

It aims to generate strategies in young men / women of Jumilla that serve to prevent the use of legal and illegal drugs.

The workshop, aimed at students of ESO 2 of the municipality of Jumilla, involving a total of 280 learners.

It has been carried out in the following schools and colleges of the town: CCE Stone Cross, Central Santa Ana Concerted Childhood Education, Elementary and Secondary, Archbishop Lozano IES and the IES Infanta Elena.

The workshop was structured in sessions in which group work have developed in order to promote the acquisition of basic concepts, display various informational videos on the different types of substances that can lead to addiction and its consequences.

It has also had the participation of members of the Association of Rehabilitated Alcoholics Jumilla (Arjuna), who directly, have shared their experiences and the associated problems that can befall people who enter this world of drugs.

Mostly it has stressed the importance of resisting peer pressure to say "no" to the offer of a consumption, and also emphasized the need to enhance skills, to achieve both high self-esteem and a strong personality to help the youth to address the risk factors related to drug use (legal or illegal), especially taking into account such an early age of onset.

From the Department of Social Services, and especially from the Municipal Plan for the Prevention of Addictions, has thanked the cooperation of Arjuna, "those who believe, and work is done considerable work in helping people with addiction problems, not only alcohol, but also other types of substances, as well as sick gamblers, and not only them but also to provide assistance to their families. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla