<p>Drug-Abuse Treatment Outcomes Study (DATOS) is a prospective study designed to determine the outcomes of adult drug abuse treatment delivered in typical, stable, community-based programs and to provide comprehensive information on continuing and new questions about the effectiveness of drug abuse...

This file includes data from the 2002 through 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) survey. The only variables included in the data file are ones that were collected in a comparable manner across all four years from 2002-2005, from 2006-2009, or from 2010-2013. The National Survey on D...

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) survey is designed to capture data on emergency department (ED) episodes that are induced by or related to the use of an illicit, prescription, or over-the-counter drug. For purposes of this collection, a drug "episode" is an ED visit that was induced by or rela...

These data provide information on the number of arrests reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program each year by police agencies in the United States. These arrest reports provide data on 43 offenses including violent crime, drug use, gambling, and larceny...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb The hedonic and reinforcing properties of drugs are linked to their interaction with cerebral dopaminergic systems. All drugs lead to an increase of dopamine in the bark of the accumulating nucleus, a brain region which coexpresses the receptors of indiceb1 ‘/indiceb (rd b1’/i...

This work identifies bodily transformative practices as an inherent practice of globalisation and capitalism. To this end, I have analysed a series of bodily practices in the world of drug trafficking in Colombia, making use of the filme María full of grace and the novel without teas, there is no ha...

<p>The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) is part of the larger "Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency" initiated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1986. PYS aims to document the development of antisocial and delinquent behavior from childhood to ear...

"Title Summary '/titrebThe basic design, on which this article is based, is to consider it essential to plan interventions that are culturally close to members of a group, community or country. Data from the Community intervention programme “Apprenticeships to participate”, based on the figure 5X, i...

We reviewed the medical records of the 118 adolescent detainees which had at least one consultation by a psychiatrist at the prison health facility during 2007. General practitioners used the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2) for recording health problems. Psychiatrists used the...

These data provide information on the number of arrests reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program each year by police agencies in the United States. These arrest reports provide data on 43 offenses including violent crime, drug use, gambling, and larceny...

Recent studies have shown that cannabis may disrupt glutamate (Glu) signaling depressing Glu tone in frequent users. Current evidence have also consistently reported lower Glu-levels in various brain regions, particularly in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of chronic schizophrenia patients, whil...

Child trafficking is among the most lucrative criminal activities in the world and growing rapidly. Poverty, natural disasters, armed conflicts and, in particular, migration put vulnerable children at high risk of trafficking. Accurate statistics on child trafficking are not available due to its ill...

A growing number of evidence demonstrates that ancestral exposure to xenobiotics (pollutants, drugs of abuse, etc.) can perturb the physiology and behavior of descendants. Both maternal and paternal transmission of phenotype across generations has been proved, demonstrating that parental drug histor...

Apresenta-se uma reflexão sobre a criminalização das atividades dos representantes dos Estados, que resulta de um estudo de casos (o narcotráfico num Estado da Amazônia brasileira). Distingue-se duas fontes de rendas ilegais – as atividades criminais e o desfalque de fundos ou serviços públicos –, c...

The author explains in a few word the importance given to drug abuse and addiction in judgements rendered in the context of Divorce Law, the Quebec Civil Code and the Youth Protection Law. He helps the reader to realize the importance given to the child’s interests. He allows himself a brief incursi...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb The qualitative study focuses on assessing the relevance of a specific action on the use of licit and illegal psychoactive substances that would prevent the intensification of uses and their consequences among the most disadvantaged young people. It was conducted with 33 jaile...

Youth data for the seventh wave of the National Youth Survey are contained in this collection. This research project, designed to gain a better understanding of both conventional and deviant types of behavior by youths, involved collecting information from a representative sample of young people in...

The sectarian phenomenon is usually described as the influence of a neck on an adept. However, experience on the ground shows that this approach is insufficient. The phenomena of capture cannot be studied without taking into account the overall context in which the victim operates and the relationsh...

The present investigation was designed to identify whether Mexican migration experience to the United States can be a facilitator for drug use. A non-probabilistic sample surveyed 567 migrants returning over the age of 18 in Tijuana, Nogales and Ciudad Juárez, most of them male at an average age of...

Domestic violence is a scourge which, in recent years, has exceeded the staff limit to become a problem for society as a whole, due to its serious consequences. In addition to constituting a violation of human rights, domestic violence generates many costs, both for ill-treated people and for societ...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThis article describes the influence that illicit alcohol and drug use has on crime in England and Wales by briefly examining knowledge of the impact of such abuse on criminal behaviour. Criminal law and punishment law introduced in response to this undeniable societal problem...

years under the mandate of the Federal Office for Public Health (OFSP) on the monitoring system of the HIV/AIDS strategy in Switzerland, 2004-2008, the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP) in Lausanne has estimated the evolution of the total number of sterile syringes used...

The first half of 2 012 has been marked by a number of events relevant to the debate on current global drug policies, brought to light by Latin American countries that ended with 40 years of systematic acceptance of the US anti-drugs strategy for the region, a strategy also reflected in the implemen...

The issue of drug abuse has been a matter of urgency for measures to promote drug treatment. This report of professional experience sought to present an intervention proposal where sportive practice was used as an important tool in the treatment process for people with alcohol dependence and other d...

Objective. Know the implicit theories used by parents who are victims of their children’s violence to explain their start. Method. An exploratory qualitative study has been carried out following the method proposed by the founding theory. The information was obtained from six discussion groups guide...