AZMEX SPECIAL 14-5-19

AZMEX SPECIAL 14 MAY 2019

Note: San Luis Rio Colorado, Son. is just south of Yuma, AZ.


TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019

https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/local/saturan-centros-de-adictos-en-sl-3617712.html

Addicts fill centers in SLRC

In SLRC there is a population of 1 thousand 600 addicts in treatment, who occupy almost all rehabilitation centers

Most recovering addicts confess to being victims of the drug known as crystal.
/ Courtesy. Luis Carlos Bravo

The majority of rehabilitation centers in San Luis Río Colorado are full, with people seeking freedom from addiction to illicit drugs,
mostly crystal and heroin, said Rogelio Ramírez Monroy.

The president of the Union of Rehabilitation and Treatment Centers of San Luis Río Colorado,
said that the majority of the approximately 20 enclosures of this type has reached the installed capacity
indicated by Standard 028 for Rehabilitation Centers under the regime of the Secretary of Health of Sonora.

Ramírez Monroy said that unlike in past years in this same range of months,
the arrival of a significant number of addicts who auto-alternate to mitigate the climate inside a refrigerated space was expected,
which has been replaced by the entry of victims. of crystal addiction, followed by heroin

"We have noticed a lot of crystal consumption and greater facility to get this drug in the streets of San Luis Río Colorado,
at least that is what patients express in their stage of reintegration in the centers," he said.

He added that, given the lack of spaces to serve addicts in the city, family members interested in recruiting someone
are invited to take them to the centers in Mexicali, Baja California.

They come from the US

Part of the patients who are currently in the SLRC Rehabilitation Center are residents of Yuma County,
due to the use of substances such as fentanyl

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