The addictions in Mexico

National The intolerance to the frustration favors the development of this illness The addictions in Mexico By: Carlos Damian March 20, 2013 This illness of the game, is a problem of public health México. - Solitude, dissatisfaction with the life, little control of impulses and intolerance to the frustration they are some of the factors that favor the development of the game pathological illness, liking for the games of chance. If we go to the ‘Manual diagnosis and statistic of the mental dysfunctions’, fifth edition (DSM-V), it included the game pathological illness among the addictions for their similarities in the clinical expression, origin, physical morbidity and treatment with the rest of addictions, to the alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. The reasons of the increment of the pathological game can be different, but a fundamental one has been the increase of the centers of games and comely, better acquaintances as casinos. Carlos del Moral one affirms (CM), we have to admit that the game pathological illness has stayed artificially invisible; it is because nobody has wanted to see it, because “there are many interests". There is the social perception that the player “is a fool that will give his money". But this statement is not certain. Certainly that the game pathological illness is an illness and it can reach levels of extreme graveness, even lethal. A pathological player affects from 15 to 20 people to his around: to those that are owed them it continues requesting borrowed and at the end it becomes a very heavy load that nobody wants to take. It is not spoken of that neither that at least 60 percent of the utilities of the casinos comes from the game pathological-men, in its majority wives that are those that go to diary, they are very quiet, very early to have breakfast flavorful, and to spend its money, “to play and to lose, and to lose", the expert insists with formation in psychology, in particular in logo-therapy. Anything has been made by the authorities Until September of 2012, the Address of Games and Raffles of the Secretary of Government already had a registration of 359 establishments in operation and 679 with permission of the organism and awaiting opening authorization on the part of the municipalities. Also, the a hundred businesses that they were hardly approved some minutes are before Felipe Calderon's government finished. Official statistics don't exist, but the authorities of the sector health estimate that of 1 to 3.4 percent of the population has problems with their form of playing. Only in Nuevo Leon State, entity with the biggest quantity in casinos, 39 officially, a registration of 173 people that they fulfill the clinical approaches of the game pathological illness, exists it points out the document about General considerations toward the prevention and the attention of the pathological game in Mexico. This book in fact is the first institutional effort in which the existence of the problem is recognized and they think about the alternatives of prevention and attention. It was elaborated by the Secretary of Health (SSA, in Spanish), by means of the National Council against the Addictions and the Department of the Interior, after the attack in the casino Royale of Monterrey, where they died more than 50 people, of those that 35 were women, but “up to now everything has stayed in the paper", it affirmed CM. “Except for distributing the book to the Centers New Life, anything has not been made in spite of the commitment of the officials to impel campaigns with posters, pamphlets and specialists' formation in the handling of the game pathological illness", it pointed out. He adds that for the pathological player there are not limits. It is never enough. If they win they want more and more. They live in a situation of unconsciousness and their illness goes of the hand with the suicidal thought. The reason: they end up having debts so big that their only option is to take off the life. The specialist remembers to one of his patients that accumulated losses for 667 thousand dollars in three years. To be a man of game pathological illness certain characteristics they are needed, some as those already mentioned, and particularly, to be obsessive compulsive, because some go, they lose 200 dollars and they say “in my life I return. I find difficult to make the money go to throw it to a casino". For the pathological players, on the other hand, its life rotates around the game, which becomes more important than the family, the work, the sex, and any other thing. The relatives generally notice of the illness because the patient becomes liar, she walks of bad humor, she sleeps in excess or almost anything. He explains to us the specialist that, the same as the addictions to legal substances or in their illegal case, the game “deceives to the mind", with an immediate pleasure and when it happens it comes the syndrome of abstinence and a series of psychosomatic illnesses. The challenge to the luck is a challenge to the devil, and to the mental health The loss of freedom is what they represent the addictions. People cannot stop to consume or of having some behavior in spite of knowing the damages that it causes them in all the aspects of their life. With the pathological game it passes the same thing and in the Federal Republic, for the increment of the casinos, it is a phenomenon that every time will be done with more frequency. The society should be alert to the evolution of that phenomenon for several reasons; one is the association among the game’s pathological illness the mental illnesses. In general, half of addicted people to some substance also suffer some neurological dysfunction, as depression or anxiety. In the case of the alcohol, 30 percent of the drinkers present that morbidity, although in the serious cases the indicator arrives to 80 percent. For what we deduce that a drinker and an addict have some mental suffering in common. We should not lose of view the priority of the topic, mainly so that an appropriate legislation is created and you norms the corresponsibility of the owners of the game establishments with the protection of the citizen's health, like it happens in other latitudes like The States. We have to keep in mind that the game centers and bets in the country they have agreements with groups of mutual help and treatment centers, so that they are warned when in the casino it is detected a person that, in spite of losing a lot of money, it continues playing. Those groupings and clinical that works with a similar outline to that of AA, the player's companions become. In some places the commitment exists of no longer to allow the person to continue playing. The purpose is to take care of the player, because the person gets sick you cannot protect it. In her the affectation in reason is evident in the cerebral images. The areas associated with the reasoning and the taking of decisions appears out or semi-out." Let us remember that with the incorporation of the pathological game to the classification of addictions in Mexico, there is the disposition that the centers of attention of addictions and the groups of Juvenile Integration help to game’s pathological illnes-men. The individuals that also suffer depression, anxiety that which is very common, is channeled to the National Institute of psychiatry. As it already happens to other mental illnesses, the rehabilitation is that the sick persons accept and recognize that they are sick. To the institutions of health it coincide them to work in the design and application of mechanisms that favor the search of clinical treatment, among other, the early identification and the canalization of sick people to the specialization centers in their attention. (La Jornada, adicciones, p. 2, March 5, 2013).