"We must intervene proactively to combat drug production and trafficking at a global level. This is the teaching of Giovanni Falcone, this is what courageous and capable magistrates continue to do, especially in the most exposed areas of Latin America or Asia".
Thus the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Alfredo Mantovano, in Vienna, at the 67th annual session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Cnd), a body of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
"At the same time, prevention, treatment and socio-occupational rehabilitation services must be provided to everyone - he continues - We are against the use of all drugs and we do not believe that in a legal system there is the right to use psychoactive substances, instead there is a duty before the spread of these substances can cause irreversible damage".
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