CONCENTRATE ON THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM!

Maybe if the police arrested the drug dealers, drug users, and the prosecutors would prosecute these people instead of looking the other way like the Dutch do, then maybe your island wouldn't be infested with addicts scurrying around like cockroaches.

Maybe if the police and officials did their job, they wouldn't have to combat the drug addiction problem. Aruba is the portal for drug trafficking. This makes money for many people...public officials, crooked cops, prime ministers, casino owners…shall I go on?

Combat the drug trafficking first, then the drug addicts. Concentrate on the root of the problem!!!

Despite public sentiment that the number of addicts has gone up, the Drug Interdiction and Coordination Bureau is pleased with the addiction care on Aruba, among other things with the arrival of the drugs information center CIAD. (They are pleased because they don't want to deal with it.)


ORANJESTAD – The government is working on a comprehensive approach to the drug addiction problem. It needs to end with the little islands inside and outside the government, according to Minister Booshi Wever of Healthcare (MEP).


The Drug Interdiction and Coordination Bureau has therefore launched a round of talks regarding the issues having to do with drug addiction. The talks should eventually lead to a management plan that all the involved parties of the government and institutions can commit to.


Therein the entire chain of addiction care, like prevention, repression, housing, treatment, and rehabilitation need to be taken into account. According to Rosita Otterspeer of the Coordination Bureau the conferences are also meant to shed further light on the number of addicts in Aruba.


“We don’t know exactly how many there are (of course they have no figures..."go figure!") and what they’re addicted to. That investigation is starting now. With those figures we can later get out priorities straight and further build up the management plan. The results will provide the basis to see if we are offering the proper addiction care.”


Otterspeer understands the media commotion and the feelings of the populace that the addiction problem keeps getting bigger and it seems as if no one is doing anything about it. Still according to her it’s questionable whether all the homeless in the inner city are addicts. “We notice ourselves that it often involves people who are homeless due to economic problems, so for example can’t afford a roof over their heads. There are also many with psychological problems or it involves older people.” Therefore, according to her, other institutions who deal with psychiatric patients and take in senior citizens also need to play a roll to solve this problem.

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