Rehabilitación obligatoria para ciudadanos en grave estado de dependencia a las drogas

Abstract

In Colombia it is forbidden by our Constitutional Court to force its citizens to rehabilitate since this would affect the right to free development of the personality of the subject, leaving aside with this decision aspects of great importance such as the The state of physical or mental health of the addict, the rights that this problematic consumer may see affected by the irresponsible use of the right to free development of the personality, the rights of third parties that are impaired by the actions that the consumer Problematic drug carries out, the lack of legal capacity that the addict has to decide on his life, the increase of the recreational consumption of drugs in the country and the prison crisis of the country fed in large part by the crimes related to the drugs, by Such a motive in this research is intended to prove that compulsory rehabilitation for addicts in serious drug addiction can be legally viable under the above conditions, using to support this proposal Legal tools such as the weighting of rights and the surrogate consent of the addict, in addition to suggesting in conjunction with compulsory rehabilitation the use of public policy mainly used in Europe known as the reduction of Harm, seeking to provide a legal solution to the problems that have arisen especially in the capital of the country due to the recreational consumption of illegal drugs.