250 students participated in the first "AwarenessDayon Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption" organized by the classroom Saludable of the School of Nursing of the University of Navarra. This is a campaign to raise awareness among adolescents and university students about the reality of alcohol and promote in this way a consumption manager.

During the workshop, which took place between 9:00 and 20:00 at campus in Pamplona, several activities simulating real environments and situations faced by young people after a massive alcohol intake took place.

Attendees participated in a circuit in which visual and motor alterations were recreated after regular alcohol consumption during the weekend. They also attended an over-stimulation classroom and a simulation organized jointly with DYA Navarra in which they saw first-hand how different situations of massive alcohol and other drug intake are dealt with by the health system.

Miren Idoia Pardavila, professor at School of Nursing and one of those responsible for classroom Saludable, recalls that 65% of 18-year-olds suffer from acute alcohol intoxication and 33% of adolescents admit to getting drunk at least once a month.

Knowing this context, he says, "it is very important to carry out these campaigns to raise awareness of how alcohol alters the perception of reality and to dismantle false myths and beliefs". The association of Alcoholics Anonymous of Navarra also intervened in the meeting . "Their presence was essential to make visible the consequences of alcoholism and explain to young people that it is a chronic disease, but with a message full of hope," said Pardavila.