Alcoholism and drug use during the pandemic

 Alcoholism and drug use during the pandemic has increased in the world. Both alcohol and drugs are not elements that can be harmful if their use is such that it does not create addiction or dependence. Alcohol and drugs were used as medicines, social lubricant and even as a means of overcoming critical situations, by pirates, sailors, soldiers, victims of wars, diseases or catastrophes, to desensitize us and stop psychosomatic disorders, which these events can produce.

But when alcohol and drugs became big business, like war, soda and hamburgers, they became the source of mental or physical illnesses, difficult to cure that we now call addictions.

But drug addictions unlike addictions to gambling, to gambling, to television, to sex, to money, to extreme sports, in which what abounds above all is adrenaline, the fixation of attention , the secretion of sexual hormones or satisfaction, such as oxytocin or neurological mediators, which alter neuronal functioning, in drugs, which can be from caffeine, nicotine, which is the most addictive drug, to opioids, which They are the ones that most disturb brain functioning, there is a chemical element outside the body, which, like medicines, produces changes in the behavior of cells, organs and systems of the body, and they become so necessary that its absence produces the called withdrawal syndromes, in which first the body and then the mind, react in a brutal and violent way, against the lack of the stimulant.

Finally, drugs and alcohol have an economic and organic cost within the body. The economic cost is that it can lead a drug addict to lose everything for drugs, from money, property, social relationships, work, or even scruples, making him dangerous to himself and others. The organic cost is that finally the organs that altered their functioning can enter a disorderly performance that disrupts the functioning of the other organs and systems of the body until their collapse.

Drug addicts have become the most expensive and difficult patients for governments, health centers and families, many of whom experience internal catastrophes due to drugs and alcohol.

The consumption of alcohol and drugs has become, as religions once were, the comfort of the poor and the afflicted.

 This pandemic has multiplied its consumption and the fight against drugs hides political motives, which allows countries like the United States to use their weapons to wage wars such as those in Afghanistan or Colombia, to appropriate armies, police and justice, which in their own way Sometimes they can support, put or remove governments, as in Ecuador, so the fight against drugs is by far a health problem only, it is more a political-military problem between countries, which multiplies the profits of traffickers, that the more risks they have, the more price they put on the drug, thus, it becomes expensive, which means that to increase profits, addicts must be increased, these in turn have to be rich and these addicts are found in developed countries, so alcoholism, which was used by the European conquerors to dominate other continents, such as America, today is the drug of the poor and cocaine, heroin or amphetamines, are essentially the drug of the rich or fortunate, of any country.

Curiously, the first country in the 21st century to defeat the United States in a war: Afghanistan, has achieved it thanks to the narco guerrillas, peasants, drug producers and drug traffickers of the world, especially the mafias, who provided weapons and money to the Mujahideen and Taliban for opium.

Drugs and drug addiction is now a global pathology, which disrupts the lives of countries and the economy, countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay and even Argentina, and this The pandemic has turned drug traffickers and drug users, such as those who consume marijuana, into visible political actors recently in Mexico, or in the elections of the USA, which is now the largest producer and exporter of cannabis.