2024-07-13 07:42:58
Due to the frequent cases of the sale and use of alcohol, tobacco products, and gas by minors, including during organized children’s discos throughout the country, programs are to be developed to explain the risk factors leading to health damage and moral development, reported the State Agency for Child Protection (DAZP).
Attention will also be directed to the requirement to accompany the children in public places, to inform the parents on the subject, as well as to the search for administrative and criminal liability for lack of parental supervision and control over the behavior of their children, added the DAPS.
At a meeting in the agency with representatives of the Main Directorate “National Police”, the Metropolitan Directorate of Internal Affairs, the Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office, the Social Assistance Agency, the Metropolitan Regional Health Inspectorate and the Metropolitan Municipality, the possibilities for coordinated actions between the institutions to exercise strict control over counteraction and prevention of the use of alcohol, tobacco products, nitrous oxide (paradise gas) and narcotic and health-damaging substances by persons under the age of 18, as well as on the admission regime in entertainment establishments visited by children.
Yesterday, at a hearing in the parliament, the Acting Minister of Health Galya Kondova announced that the department is considering the possibilities in the legislation to create a list of substances dangerous to health, in order to limit the distribution and use of natural gas only to the purposes permitted by law and to be increased control efficiency.
Nitrous oxide is under active monitoring by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, and if there is evidence that it causes addiction, actions will be taken to bring it under control by introducing it into the current legislation in the field of narcotic substances, Kondeva said. She explained that paradise gas does not meet the criteria for dependence and cannot be classified as a narcotic substance.
Earlier in the week, 18,000 bottles of natural gas, sold in various places along the Southern Black Sea coast, were seized during a specialized police operation by employees from the “Economic” and “Criminal Police” departments of the ODVMVR – Burgas, the police press center reported.
A total of 15 people were found selling balloons with paradise gas, on which warning protocols were drawn up to comply with the requirements – not to sell for use in closed spaces and to minors.