NEW DRUGS IN THE CITIES
58% of the young people who live in Milan have tried at least one sort of drugs.
The astonishing news comes out of a survey carried out by ASL, a local health organization, which tested a selection of 365 young people in a range between 18 and 25 years of age.
The survey has revealed that the most used drugs are marijuana (40%), inhaled drugs (14%), cocaine (10%).
At the time some new drugs, defined as ethnic drugs from Brazil, the Philippines and China are spreading.
The problem exists and has to be faced.
In order to solve this problem a coordinated action is needed, based on education and promotion of the person.
What we really need today is to involve schools and families starting an educational process against drug-taking.
SOCCER AND VIOLENCE
On 23th September some clashes between the supporters of Genoa and Sampdoria took place before the derby. Nine supporters were arrested and they were accused of fight, lesions, damages, firearm licence and throwing objects.
Another episode of violence was registered on November 11th: before a football match near Arezzo a 26-year-old boy, Gabriele Sandri, was killed by a policeman with a gunshot.
The official had intervened to stop a riot among supporters.
These are only some of the episodes that happen in and out of the stadiums every week-end.
The problem with soccer in Italy is linked to the behaviour of supporters who aren’t simply sports fans but who see an enemy in the supporters of any opponent team.
In fact they look for clashes as a way to gain respect: one of their goals is to show their supremacy and power, but not in a pacific way, through violence instead.
ULTRAS: VIOLENCE ADDICTS
Soccer, which should be just a sport, full of passion and comradeship among its supporters, becomes a moment of collective violence.
Soccer players, often seen as gods, are only temporary prophets of the world they represent.
They are worshipped when they wear their uniforms, the colours, the flag of a particular team, but they can be lapidated as soon as they change it.The team’s dressing room is sacred as well as everything that happens in there.
Soccer players are considered as priests, but while churchmen lose credibility when they preach badly, they are infallible and they always tell the truth.
Being a soccer player does not mean being a sports person in the eyes of most fans : it is rather associated with an easy career, popularity, money and easy life.
As media icons they don’t represent the long way to perfection taken by so many athletes in the world: they are simply the key to business and the myth of people without personal goals nor chances for whom sports is only an excuse.
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