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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I cannot fail to welcome your speech, Mr Frattini, because it has accurately highlighted how serious the drug problem is in the European Union.
I agree with what Mr Coelho and Mr Pirker have said, because the fight against drug taking and trafficking has to be an ever increasing priority for the Union. It is in fact impossible to address this growing emergency, which has worldwide implications, without the involvement of all the supranational institutions and without constant updates on a situation that is changing all the time.
I therefore welcome the rapporteur’s proposal to strengthen the activities of the European Monitoring Centre, in order to make the exchange of information on the measures adopted by the various Member States increasingly effective and to achieve closer cooperation with Europol.
The consumption of drugs and substances that create dependence varies over time. Whereas heroin used to cause the greatest alarm in the past, cocaine now prompts more concern because of the way it is spreading among young people, together with the lethal mixes with alcohol that are being used in clubs. Understanding what is changing in order to prevent and fight the drug problem more effectively is a criterion that we should apply when assessing the monitoring centre’s role.
However, we have a duty in our anti-drug measures not to give in to the permissiveness that so far has only caused an increase in dependence. For example, it was unacceptable for an Italian Government representative to state that he favoured the possibility of controlled drug use through what are known as ‘injecting rooms’. Decisions of that kind have never given young people back their freedom. In that regard, I agree wholeheartedly with the words of Don Gelmini, a priest who is a leading international figure in the fight for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, who said that fighting drugs with drugs is an aberration; it is like reopening lunatic asylums to cure the mentally ill."@en1
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