La Clara, a reflection website for young people
In times of lockdown, the website La Clara, a project of the Generalitat Public Health Agency, offers several articles address to young people bout how to deal with drug dependence or addiction to screens during these days.
The website La Clara of the Generalitat de Catalunya Public Health Agency, coordinated by the General Subdirectorate for Drug Dependence, provides information for young people on the effects and consequences of different drugs. Now, in times of confinement, a series of articles appeared to tackle issues such as the effects of drug dependence in situations like the one we are living in or the consequences of screen abuse.
Are we too exposed to screens?
It is clear that we are all exposing ourselves to the effect of the screens. Teleworking and, above all, the downtimes that occur when we cannot leave home, we often mitigate them by consuming products through television or mobile phones, for example.
The website, in these new articles, offers a set of recommendations. To mention some, it encourages the incorporation of new healthy habits, such as:
- Stop looking at the screen for 20 seconds from time to time
- Do not look at them two hours before going to sleep
- Do not check other screens when we are on the computer
What about drugs? What if I feel like smoking?
These days, there are also articles on drugs aimed at "overcoming anxiety, tiredness or despondency". It also explains what possible emotional states we may experience, especially in the cases of habitual consumption of these substances.
With regard to these drugs, the articles encourage us to ask ourselves, during this period, why we consume them. That is, do I do it because I really enjoy it or rather to forget other things? To feel the way I feel or only because it is already an unconscious act?
On the other hand, another article suggests up to 10 ideas that can help us to stop consuming them. Ideas such as "looking for a friend who has been through this situation, getting rid of what you have and not restocking it once finished, or trying to be busy and doing things that generate well-being".
The website La Clara usually makes available to its readers basic information about alcohol or drugs. These days, as we see, it adapts and gives us new ideas on how to handle the situation that is affecting us.