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According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), although in the last CPI in April there was no monthly variation, among the items that did rise, alcoholic beverages along with tobacco, reported a 1.4% increase in variation compared to March.
According to the national director of the National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption, Carlos Charme, this rise in alcohol consumption has worried them and therefore they have arranged a decalogue on their website with tips to prevent alcohol and other drug use during quarantine.
Charme also stressed the call for self-care of citizens, added to the special care for children and adolescents.
The addiction psychiatrist and academic at the UDP Medical School, Mario Hitschfeld, explained that alcohol is a legal substance and that it has a very massive reach in the population, its consumption is also very normalized in our culture.
In this sense, the psychiatrist affirmed that this context of confinement “Calls” for naturalized alcohol consumption to tend to increase.
This increase in alcohol consumption is just accompanied by an increase in records of gender violence.
According to data from the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity, in the first three weeks of April, compared to the same period in March, the increase in calls to the phone number 1455, mainly to ask for guidance and in cases of violence, it was 53%.
Also according to records that compare calls to the 149th police station phone number, also of physical and psychological violence of an intra-family nature, the increase in the first half of April 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, it was 119%.
For Lorena Astudillo, spokesperson for the National Coordination of the Chilean Network against Violence against Women, the context of confinement is just a pretext that the aggressors use to manifest their violent behaviors.
From the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity, they highlighted the initiatives launched as “Mask 19”, which allows women or third parties who cannot call, request help at pharmacies, added to the 1455 Web Chat and the Whatsapp Woman +569 9700 7000, for women who cannot call and need to ask for guidance silently.
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