Self-Care on Drugs

The PADEU is in charge of the development of promotion and prevention in the members of the UC student community, of self-care, knowledge, scope and particularities in the use and abuse of substances such as tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hallucinogens, among others, as well as self-care in psychoaddictive behaviors not related to substances (excessive use of screens, cell phones, food, among others). In addition, limited individual and group interventions are carried out, prioritizing students' motivation to change, through tools that enhance their responsibility and self-care of their mental health. Within the program, elements of health and biopsychosocial approach, community strategies are incorporated and, as a central axis in its implementation, preventive and psychoeducational elements in self-care, management and reduction of risks and/or harms.

Program Objectives

Facilitate spaces for awareness and knowledge for students in relation to the components, uses, scope and risks of drug use, educating and providing up-to-date and evidence-based information.

Promote community meetings that promote healthier lifestyles with an emphasis on dialogue and co-construction, which allows us to know the associated discourses that students have about drugs and their consumption.

Encourage campuses to become healthy spaces for all their members, emphasizing the construction of a model of care that allows students to quickly and expeditiously access any promotional and preventive information regarding the subject of drugs.

Prevent or reduce the incidence or severity of problems associated with drug use in college students.

To meet the demands of students associated with the consumption of drugs and/or alcohol, from a health care model, providing the pertinent tools for a change with respect to their problems or the precise referral and incorporation with the external health networks, when the demand exceeds the capacity of attention in the program.

Coordinated networking with Academic Units, in order to collaborate, diagnose and intervene in the specific problems that each Faculty may have in relation to substance use.

The Self-Care in Drugs Program (PADEU) offers a series of services for UC students

Talks

Promotional and preventive, psychoeducational and conversation space that seeks to provide basic or specific information on a topic related to substance use. You can count on guests who are experts in topics that facilitate a greater depth with respect to a topic and that invite dialogue, discussion and the transmission of relevant information for UC students.

Councils

A process in which a trained professional listens, informs, and guides a student to make personal decisions related to the topic consulted. Counseling is a one-on-one conversation space for students who have a concern about their own substance use or other object/behavior, or about the use of a close friend or family member. It offers the opportunity to evaluate the pattern of use of any drug and its consequences; and it facilitates the acquisition of strategies to reduce the associated risks.

Training-Training Workshops

Workshop with an expository and training orientation whose emphasis is to provide tools so that students can assume roles of monitoring, prevention, awareness and first aid in social events that involve alcohol consumption within the university. It involves raising awareness of the University’s policies and regulations associated with alcohol consumption.

Playground Activities

Promotional and community space offered in different places of the university (faculty courtyards, pedestrian transit spaces, campus entrances) with the intention of bringing the issue of drug use in all its aspects closer to spaces for rest and dispersion of students. It is carried out through a stand with infographics, recreational activities, among others.