Increasingly pure and concentrated drugs. And even in the province the dangerous Fentanyl is spreading

ALEXANDRIA – I am increasingly pure, concentrated and dangerous. Who is committed to analyze and combat drug use he saw increase the doping power of substances and worryingly decrease the age of those who take them. In the last three years they are more than quadrupled the number of young people aged between 14 and 22 followed by the Ser.D, the Department of Addictions of the ASL Al. From the 20 kids followed in Alessandria in 2021, today it has risen to 90 and many are cases “really complex“, explained the Director of the Ser.D Luigi Bartoletti, among the experts of inter-institutional conference organized by the provincial Carabinieri Command.

A moment of discussion on issues related to the spread of substances in our territory to make the enforcement action under the “investigative, health, social and toxicological profile”, highlighted the Provincial commander of the force, Colonel Massimiliano Rocco.
“Sharing is prevention”added the Commander of the Operations Department, Lieutenant Colonel Silvio Melealso introducing the interventions of Maria Matilde Cirillo, Director of the Analysis Laboratory of the University Hospital of Alessandria e Daniele Zambon, Head of the Analytical Toxicology Structure of the AOUAL. Among the experts who also spoke Riccardo BoverioDirector of the Department of Emergency Medicine – Urgency of the Alessandria Hospital, Carlo LocatelliDirector of the Poison Control Center and National Toxicological Information Center of the Maugeri Scientific Hospital and Treatment Institute of Pavia and the Marshal Major Gianluca Belli, responsible for LASS, the Narcotics Analysis Laboratory of the Carabinieri Provincial Command of Alessandria which analyzes all the drugs seized by the police also in the provinces of Asti, Biella, Vercelli Novara and Verbania.

Cannabinoids, cocaine and heroin remain the most widespread substances in our territory, it was explained during the conference, but New drugs have also arrived in the province And “it’s spreading” the dangerous Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid used to treat acute pain which in high doses can lead to overdose and death. Those who surf the “dark web” can also find hallucinogenic drugs or fluoroamphetaminethe so-called “ectasy light”, which, however, has nothing light about it. The content of cannabinoids is also increasingly high THC, was reiterated during the conference. Over the years marijuana has been “enhanced”. “From tall plants like basil“today we have reached 2 meter plants and together with the height the content of the “euphoric part” that, after the high, can lead to serious consequences.

Assume high levels of THC “every day and multiple times a day” determines a greater tendency “to aggressiveness” and increases the probability of developing “psychosis”, explained the director of the Ser.D. Among the 6 thousand subjects involved in an American study, 32.2 had a diagnosis of psychosis 5 years after taking it, which in 26% was similar to schizophrenia and in 8.4% led to bipolar disorder. Psychosis that develops from substance use can last “for a long time after hiring”can lead to a state “of twilight calm” it’s at “disperceptions”, from those of colored light to those that give the sensation of flying or, on the contrary, of sinking. “The ultimate effect” And “the tsunami”, an anomalous wave that creates an important psychopathological disorder and which according to some scholars is “irreversible“.