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A discussion of critical errors in a longitudinal study on the deterrent effect of drug‐induced homicide laws on opioid‐related mortality across 92 counties and the District of Columbia in the United States

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 587-612, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Drug overdose claimed more than 100,000 lives in the United States in 2021. Drug‐induced homicide (DIH) laws create specific criminal liability for individuals who provide drugs that cause or contribute to the death of another person. DIH prosecutions in the United States have increased substantially over the past decade despite the absence of
Jennifer J. Carroll, Leah Bevis, Taleed El‐Sabawi, Mary Figgatt, Nabarun Dasgupta, Leo Beletsky, Amy J. Leiberman, Ashleigh Dennis, Corey S. Davis   +8 more
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Cost‐effectiveness and cost‐utility analyses of a web‐based computer‐tailored intervention for prevention of binge drinking among Spanish adolescents

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 319-335, February 2023., 2023
Many international and national interventions have sought to prevent alcohol use among adolescents, but their effectiveness and efficiency has seldom been assessed. In particular, our study evaluated the cost‐effectiveness of Alerta Alcohol programme, which is an intervention aimed at tackling the problem of binge drinking (BD) among adolescents ...
Ana Magdalena Vargas‐Martínez, Marta Lima‐Serrano, Marta Trapero‐Bertran   +2 more
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Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Implementación de políticas de prevención y control de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica: lecciones para la investigación y la práctica transfronterizas

Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen Aunque se han hecho avances en el desarrollo y aplicación a gran escala de intervenciones eficaces contra la obesidad infantil, los retos siguen siendo importantes. Nuestro objetivo era comprender las causas del éxito de Estados Unidos y los países latinoamericanos en la implementación de políticas y programas (PYP) contra la obesidad e ...
Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla, Mireya Vilar‐Compte, Elizabeth Rhodes, Olga L. Sarmiento, Camila Corvalan, Rachel Sturke, Susan Vorkoper   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

colapso de la política de la guerra contra las drogas en Brasil

Aisthesis, 2021
El análisis interdisciplinar de la actual política de drogas brasileña, de carácter prohibicionista, lleva a la conclusión que ella ha frustrado las expectativas de aquellos que creían que la promulgación de la Ley 11.343/06 resultaría en un tratamiento ...
Ana Carolina De Paula Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Drogas, direitos humanos e bioetica: dupla vulnerabilidade do usuário de drogas em situação de rua

Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética, 2017
A primeira política nacional sobre drogas do Brasil foi criada em 2002, através de um decreto presidencial. Desde então, a mesma passou por reavaliação no ano de 2003 e por atualização e realinhamentos, deixando de ser uma política antidrogas e passando ...
Andrea Valerio Leite, Wanderson Flor do Nascimento   +1 more
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O tráfico de drogas na jurisprudência do Superior Tribunal de Justiça: análise crítica

Boletim IBCCRIM, 2023
Uma análise da jurisprudência do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) sobre o tráfico de drogas pode contribuir para racionalizar processos criminais responsáveis por 28% da população carcerária do País.
Dr. Juarez Cirino dos Santos, Dr. Maurício Stegemann Dieter   +1 more
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El papel del Federal Bureau of Narcoticsen el diseño de la política de drogas en México (1940-1968)

Frontera Norte, 2019
El artículo examina el papel del Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) –un cuerpo policial anclado al Departamento del Tesoro de los Estados Unidos– en el diseño e implementación de la política de drogas ejecutada en México entre 1940 y 1968.
Carlos A. Pérez Ricart
doaj   +1 more source

Acute Effects of the Novel Psychoactive Drug 2C‐B on Emotions

BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015
Background. 2C‐B (Nexus) is one of the most widespread novel psychoactive substances. There is limited information about its pharmacological properties, and few studies in humans concern its acute and chronic effects. 2C‐B has been classified as a stimulant, hallucinogen, entactogen, and/or empathogen. Objectives. To evaluate the emotional, subjective,
Débora González, Marta Torrens, Magí Farré, Giovanni Martinotti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventive Interventions to Reduce Youth Involvement in Gangs and Gang Crime in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 1-176, 2015., 2015
This Campbell systematic review examines why the implementation of preventive interventions to reduce youth involvement in gangs and gang crime may fail or succeed low and middle‐income countries. The review summarises findings from four studies conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Angela Higginson, Kathryn Benier, Yulia Shenderovich, Laura Bedford, Lorraine Mazerolle, Joseph Murray   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source