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Drug abuse.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientific publication (Pan American Health Organization) ; no. 522Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, 1990.Description: 198 pISBN:
  • 9275115222
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WM 270
Abstract: Presents the results of a number of epidemiologic studies designed to assess the extent of the drug abuse problem in the Americas and identify lines of preventive action. The book has two parts. The first is a multi-authored collection of studies focused on the epidemiologic characteristics of the drug abuse epidemic. Studies fall into three main groups. The first provides a sample of current research designed to gauge the extent of the drug abuse problem and determine why governments are so often unprepared to respond in effective ways. The second group explores methodologies used in drug abuse research and points out the necessity of developing alternative epidemiologic surveillance systems. Papers in the third group, which considers the evaluation of preventive programmes, attempt to determine which preventive strategies are most effective and to which groups they should be directed. The second half of the book presents an epidemiologic report on the use and abuse of psychoactive substances in each of 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. These reports constitute the first attempt to create a data bank, suitable for regular updating, based on records covering the production, trafficking, and use of psychoactive substances in the countries surveyed. The book is derived from a special issue of the Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization.
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Articles originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization, v. 24, no. 1, 1990.

Presents the results of a number of epidemiologic studies designed to assess the extent of the drug abuse problem in the Americas and identify lines of preventive action. The book has two parts. The first is a multi-authored collection of studies focused on the epidemiologic characteristics of the drug abuse epidemic. Studies fall into three main groups. The first provides a sample of current research designed to gauge the extent of the drug abuse problem and determine why governments are so often unprepared to respond in effective ways. The second group explores methodologies used in drug abuse research and points out the necessity of developing alternative epidemiologic surveillance systems. Papers in the third group, which considers the evaluation of preventive programmes, attempt to determine which preventive strategies are most effective and to which groups they should be directed. The second half of the book presents an epidemiologic report on the use and abuse of psychoactive substances in each of 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. These reports constitute the first attempt to create a data bank, suitable for regular updating, based on records covering the production, trafficking, and use of psychoactive substances in the countries surveyed. The book is derived from a special issue of the Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization.

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