Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-13-Speech-4-020"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Drug dependence2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030213.2.4-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-13-Speech-4-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Thomas-mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Mouvement pour la France (2000-11-23--2003-06-16)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2003-03-10)3 member; NA (2001-01-31--2003-03-10)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2003-03-10)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, it is a matter of concern that the use of drugs is everywhere being treated as unimportant and commonplace. This phenomenon goes hand in hand with the social acceptance of the marketing of them for recreational purposes, sometimes on a daily basis. Drugs are not, though, an accident of fate to which one must resign oneself. They involve serious risk of infection and lead to people being socially excluded in a very real sense. You have to call a spade a spade. This report speaks of risks, for the danger is indeed there. Let me say that I am astonished that the report does not retain the amendment I had tabled in committee with the aim of avoiding the pitfall of trivialising drug use. How do you combat evil if you start from the premise that it is inevitable or even necessary? To do so demonstrates a sad detachment from reality. The risk will be no less if we sink into politically correct indifference. Drug addiction is not tolerable. It is a scourge that must be fought against. There are no soft drugs. There certainly needs to be information, but the trivialisation of drug use is a snare and must be combated. As for a policy of risk-reduction, it could not do other than appear like fatalistic acceptance of the dangers. This not about marginalising drug users still further, nor about scuppering risk reduction schemes, but about demonstrating at last the will to undertake preventive measures, which must have a simultaneous effect on both supply and demand and on our sense of social responsibility. The refusal to trivialise drug use means taking up our responsibilities, both as regards our young people, who are most affected by this, and also with respect to social cohesion, which must always unite us all."@en1

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