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Embassy-Sponsored Drug-Use Survey Roll-out Attracts High-Level Attention
June 22, 2004

On June 25, the Embassy and FUNDASALVA co-hosted a breakfast meeting at which the head researcher presented key findings from the survey, among them that first usage tends to occur in the early teenage years and may be strongly linked to use of alcohol and tobacco.

With $75,000 from Post's INL budget, anti-drug foundation FUNDASALVA commissioned the first-ever survey of illicit substance use and abuse nationwide -- a study we hope will provide the basis for an integrated national anti-drug strategy that includes programs for prevention and treatment.

On June 25, the Embassy and FUNDASALVA co-hosted a breakfast meeting at which the head researcher presented key findings from the survey, among them that first usage tends to occur in the early teenage years and may be strongly linked to use of alcohol and tobacco.

Among the 80-odd guests were the Vice Minister of Governance, the Youth Affairs Secretary, legislator and former presidential candidate Hector Silva, the head of top economic think-tank FUSADES, and the Ambassadors of Colombia and the United States.

Click here for survey report (spanish) | Speech of Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay (spanish)

 

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