AddictionSan Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba.- The offices of family doctors in this town carry out preventive work against addiction. The first educational action performed by doctors is the dispensarization of patients at risk of addiction, which can be smoking, alcoholism and substance abuse.
Visits and control of these patients, as well as attention to youth and adolescents are tasks carried out in the territory, especially at the urban area by the characteristics it presents. Also educational lectures, conferences at student centers and neighborhoods discussions are ongoing schedule for patients' health.
San Antonio de los Baños shows a high rate of addiction to smoking and alcoholism in the young male population, a situation that worries experts. That is why these health professionals work for the integration into teen clubs and explain everything related to addiction and its consequences. In this activity participate students of different ages who support the preventive work together with the family doctor.