Azores with more than a third of NSP seized in Portugal in 2021
Speaking to journalists about the NSP Reflection Day, organized by the PJ at the University of the Azores, in Ponta Delgada, the expert responsible for the Drugs and Toxicology Sector at the PJ’s Scientific Police Laboratory stated that there is an “impressive casuistry” These substances in the Azorean archipelago.
“In 2021 alone, of all NSPs apprehended throughout the national territory, more than a third were learned in the Autonomous Region of the Azores”, he declared.
Maria João Calmências “and the value” is certain” of the “combination of specific factors”, as a “very particular combination of factors” is of the “combination of precarious factors” that are “most justified in the Azores” in the region.
“About 50 new ones appear a year across Europe. In Portugal, we have an average of 10 new ones a year, which is a part of them are also more Azores and in Madeira”, they are quite common. .
Maria João Caldeira advanced that “substances were identified in them that had never been seen in the whole of Europe”.
“In 2014 there was a small seizure, on the street, of material in the Ribeira Grande area. When we went to make an identification it was the first time that this substance was reported to us. .
The national director of the PJ increased the consumption of NSPs as “being a flag”, which was a “social problem” that increased the “aggression of people”.
Luís Neves highlighted the need for a phenomenon to present proposals that intend to study how NFC, whose criminalization is currently a “game of mouse and cat” that “generates a lot of money” in the international market.
“What happens to be commercialized is the time that the products and those who manufacture are introduced to new solutions introduced, which lead to an input circuit”, he explained.
The PJ’s criminal investigation coordinator in the Azores, Renato Furtado, also noted that the Azores are among the regions “in the worst situation in terms of the prevalence of drug addicts”, considering the increase in NSPs originating in legal drug stores (known as `smartshops’). »).
“This all has its origins in the `smartshops`, which arrived here [aos Açores] in 20 and they are verified to other substances and the devices that use other substances20 are used to make use of other substances, and the devices that exert the pressure for much lower stated.
Renato Furtado that the fight against addictions has to be based “99%” on prevention.
“We have protection for young people in the prevention of busy young people, who are not in the job market, who are not in the job market”, who are in the job market, who are in the job market.
On the occasion, the Secretary of Health, Clélio Meneses, said that the Government of the Azores is also committed to “prevention”, “without neglecting treatment and reinsertion”.
The Prevention Plan for Addiction is in place, but it is more effective, it needs to be “more effective”.
“This prevention plan is working, but not much has been done exactly. There are many plans that have exactly a theoretical basis. enter the society inside”, he concluded.