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Bomberos en Estados Unidos luchan contra la crisis de los opiáceos

Programa en Manchester, Nuevo Hampshire, atiende a adictos las 24 horas del día

Thirty-one-year-old Cody shows injection marks to paramedics as he enters the Safe Station program at the Central Fire Station March 28, 2018 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Tucked away in the corner of a US fire station are two plastic chairs, a tiny poster saying "anyone, anytime, can recover," and a poem in memory of a 20-year-old woman who fatally overdosed in 2016. The space is little more than a cubby hole, but has become a safe harbor for drug addicts in New Hampshire and symbol of hope in the US fight against the opioid crisis, a group of drugs, which like morphine, dulls pain and induces euphoria.

 / AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT
Thirty-one-year-old Cody shows injection marks to paramedics as he enters the Safe Station program at the Central Fire Station March 28, 2018 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Tucked away in the corner of a US fire station are two plastic chairs, a tiny poster saying "anyone, anytime, can recover," and a poem in memory of a 20-year-old woman who fatally overdosed in 2016. The space is little more than a cubby hole, but has become a safe harbor for drug addicts in New Hampshire and symbol of hope in the US fight against the opioid crisis, a group of drugs, which like morphine, dulls pain and induces euphoria. / AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT DON EMMERT
Opiaceos3 Un hombre observa a los bomberos atender una emergencia por sobredosis en Manchester, Boston. / AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT (DON EMMERT)

En un rincón del cuartel central de bomberos de Manchester, 100 km al norte de Boston, hay dos sillas de plástico. En la pared, un poema en memoria de una joven de 20 años que murió de una sobredosis. Y un afiche en el que se lee: “Cualquiera, en cualquier momento, puede recuperarse”.

Apartada de los brillantes camiones de bomberos, la pieza tiene pocos metros cuadrados. Pero se ha convertido en un salvavidas para los toxicómanos de Manchester, y en un símbolo de esperanza de la batalla de Estados Unidos contra los opiáceos, una familia de drogas que, como la morfina, permite aliviar el dolor al mismo tiempo que produce cierta euforia y una rápida dependencia.

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