"Pity" Alvarez spent his first week in prison with abstinence syndrome and almost no visits – 21/07/2018

A week after arriving at Ezeiza Prison, after going under indictment of murder, Cristian "Pity" Alvarez spends his days sedated and almost without receiving visits . Only on Thursday 19, finally, he managed to meet his mother, Cristina Congiu. And it turned out that at this moment, the most difficult situation that Alvarez is facing is to cope with the withdrawal syndrome . His mother, moreover, fears that he will attempt suicide .

The former leader of rock bands Viejas Locas and Intoxicados is being prosecuted as the alleged murderer of Cristian Maximiliano Díaz, 36 years old, who received three blows in the face and another in the thorax and was found dead in the towers of the Samoré district, in Villa Lugano, where his ex-wife lives and his daughter, close to the musician. " I just have to stop thinking about you, but I can not wait to see you ", he sings in 2003 "Pity" in the song "I do not feel" second album of Intoxicados. Fifteen years later, the lyrics of this song (which played with the double meaning of a failed love story and its well-known drug addiction) seem to perfectly describe the moment that pbades in its treatment .

Although it is monitored day and night in the Integral Program of Mental Health Argentina (Prisma), known as the Psychiatric Pavilion of the prison, it is known that the withdrawal syndrome is l '. one of the most extreme situations that a recovering addict has to live. This is a series of symptoms triggered when the patient stops using the substance (legal or illegal) to which he is addicted. The way in which this reaction occurs varies according to the drug and the specific characteristics of the patient .

"The way the body is manifested to indicate to the person that need to return to consume are different signs and symptoms It depends on the drug, each manifests itself in a different way, "said the cardiologist and specialist of addiction to the TN chain (MN: 85234), Guido Bergman

In the specific case of "Pity", his addiction to cocaine base paste (better known as paco ) offers him a picture particularly difficult to manage. "The paco begets a little severe addiction with extreme need to go out and consume it What the addict usually does is to favor the consumption of paco to everything happens in life. It is a very difficult drug to leave warned the toxicologist Hector Berzel (MN: 83577).

Bergman adds another fact: drugs like paco do not have any pre-established treatment. "Then you must do some symptomatic treatment so that the patient does not have a bad time What is inhumane is that a person with withdrawal syndrome does not bring him or her of support because it can have a very bad time, "he maintained.

Little is known about the details of the treatment that follows "Mercy" and most of the information comes from information provided by the advocate of the singer's mother and transcended from the Penitentiary Service. Experts stress the importance of a psychological follow-up that contains the patient in this case: "Never a treatment of addition and especially in times of abstinence is based solely on the Consumption avoidance, but is still badociated with treatments for pharmacological or psychotherapeutic and even social supplements "says Bergman.

One of the possible manifestations in this period of detoxification is depression and at that moment the mother of "Mercy" is in distress. Shortly before turning to justice, his son had expressed the intention to end his life . "Cristina is so scared and asks the prison authorities to take precautions to prevent it from being damaged ," said the woman's lawyer, Claudio Calabressi.

In parallel, justice continues to investigate the crime of Cristian Díaz. Several witnesses had denounced "Pity" as the author of the crime and, after 29 hours of running away, the musician intervened and spoke in front of the cameras of several media. "I killed him because it was him or me" he said. A few hours later, in front of Judge Martín Yadarola, the former leader of "Intoxicados" refused to testify and was detained in Ezeiza Prison where he began his treatment while the investigation police continues.

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