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Playful consumption, serious concerns: navigating risks and normalization in Chile’s e-cigarette unregulated market

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Despite legal restrictions, e-cigarette use is rapidly expanding in Chile, driven by informal sales and weak enforcement. Classified as pharmaceutical products, e-cigarettes are technically prohibited for commercial sale without health ...
Constanza Silva-Gallardo   +4 more
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New indicators of health among adolescent drug users and evaluation of drug policies comparing countries

open access: yesEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022
By correlating essential features of the national drug legislations and policies of some European countries and various indicators of consumption and health of consumers, interesting patterns emerge.
Elena Ventura   +2 more
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Adolescência, drogadição e políticas públicas: recortes no contemporâneo

open access: yesEstudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
O abuso de drogas por adolescentes é, atualmente, um grave problema de saúde pública, com consequências potencialmente danosas à sua condição peculiar de pessoa em desenvolvimento.
Luciane Raupp, Clary Milnitsky-Sapiro
doaj   +1 more source

Medicamentos Quirais: da dimensão química à discussão política

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública
São discutidos aspectos conceituais dos medicamentos quirais, correspondendo a substâncias enantiomericamente puras, constantes de apenas um dos isômeros, dextrógiro (R) ou levógiro (S). O impacto no mercado mundial, que hoje atinge um contingente de US$
Jorge A. Z. Bermudez, Paulo Barragat
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Drugs Policies and Rapid Situation Assessment (RSA) for Harm Reduction

open access: yesJournal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2012
Harm reduction is the main objective of care for all drug users especially injected drug users (IDUs) because they are a high risk for HIV infection, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis.
Nualta Apakupakul
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Basis of science policies for infectious disease challenges in India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Public Health, 2018
With increase in drug resistance and related challenges in infectious diseases globally, it has become more important for a country like India with a high population to develop strategies to deal with such challenges.
Kayzad Soli Nilgiriwala
doaj   +1 more source

Drugs and Drug Policy in the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yesCrime and Justice, 1991
The Dutch parliament enacted the revised Opium Act in 1976. This penal law is part of the Dutch drug policy framework that includes tolerance for nonconforming lifestyles, risk reduction in regard to the harmful health and social consequences of drug taking, and penal measures directed against illegal trafficking in hard drugs.
openaire   +1 more source

Two steps forward, one step back: current harm reduction policy and politics in the United States

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2017
Harm reduction policies and attitudes in the United States have advanced substantially in recent years but still lag behind more advanced jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere.
Ethan Nadelmann, Lindsay LaSalle
doaj   +1 more source

Drug Policies Skyline during COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Clin Med, 2021
Vita S   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drugs: Drugs, economics and policy [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic Policy, 1997
There is no necessary link between drug consumption, addiction and social disintegration. Empirical evidence suggests that a considerable share of the population has consumed illegal drugs during some period of their lives. A substantial proportion of drug users have a job and home. Many 'mature out' of drug consumption in their thirties.
openaire   +1 more source

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