Titre : | El consumo de sustancias adictivas en las Americas |
Titre traduit : | (La consommation de substances addictives en Amérique) ; (Addictive substances use in America) |
Auteurs : | A. PERUGA ; RINCON A. ; H. SELIN |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2002 |
Format : | 227-238 / tabl. |
Note générale : |
Adicciones, 2002, 14, (2), 227-238 |
Langues: | Espagnol |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés PREVALENCE ; CONSOMMATION ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; PRODUIT LICITE ; EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE ; MORTALITE ; JEUNEThésaurus géographique AMERIQUE ; AMERIQUE CENTRALE ; AMERIQUE DU NORD ; AMERIQUE DU SUD |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : The use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs is probably linked to nearly a fourth of annual deaths that occur in the Ameri- cas. In the Southern Cone of Latin America, close to 40% of teenagers already smoke by age 15. The great majority of them breath at home air polluted with second hand smoke. In Latin America each person consumes 6 kilograms of pure alcohol each year on average, the highest figure in the less developed world. Despite the fact that data on use of illegal drugs is not widely available, it is known that marihuana is the drug of choice of a high proportion of the population. It is estimated that 45 million people consumes marihuana in the Americas. It is true that the disease burden generated by illegal drugs is not as high as that generated by legal drugs. However, their social consequences are higher. The principal challenges for the control of smoking and of the use of alcohol in the Americas are two: diminish the availability and affordability of the products, and to avoid the exposure of the population to the marketing practices of the tobacco and alcohol industries. Furthermore, in the case of tobacco, it is necessary to protect non-smokers from the smoke of others. In the case of the illegal substances, the results until now of an approach focused on supply control have been limited. The challenge is to emphasize the control of the demand through interventions of prevention, detoxification, treatment, and rehabilitation, as well as harm reduction. (Review's abstract.) |
Note de contenu : | tabl. |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Refs biblio. : | 60 |
Affiliation : |
Programa Salud Mental, 525 23rd St NW Rm 822, Washington DC 20037 Etats-Unis. United States. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 1101087 |
Centre Emetteur : | 11 SEDAP |
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