Historique
Périodique
Drugs in the postsocialist transitions of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
(Les drogues dans la transition postsocialiste en Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie et Pologne)
Auteur(s) :
LAGERSPETZ, M. ;
MOSKALEWICZ, J.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
177-183
Langue(s) :
Anglais
ISBN :
1022-6877
Refs biblio. :
30
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
PRODUIT ILLICITE
;
CONSOMMATION
;
SOCIOLOGIE
;
POLITIQUE
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE
;
OPINION
Thésaurus géographique
LETTONIE
;
ESTONIE
;
LITUANIE
;
POLOGNE
Note générale :
European Addiction Research, 2002, 8, 177-183
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
The article discusses problems related to illicit drugs in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia against the background of the postsocialist transitions of the 1990s. Besides the drug problem, the political and market reforms of the 1990s were accompanied by a surfacing of a variety of social problems, some of which had already been present during the authoritarian socialist regimes. Gaining reliable and comparable statistics on drug-related harm has become very difficult due to changes in treatment system and health statistics. Nevertheless, all available evidence suggests that the use of illicit drugs has grown rapidly in all four countries, it now being close to the Western European level. As a result of international impulses rather than domestic interest, strictly restrictive drug policies have been adopted. Drug problems are aggravated by a marginalisation of a large part of the populations. Accordingly, their reduction may require a more general revision of the four countries' economic and social policies. (Author's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Estonian Inst. of Humanities, Tallinn
Estonie. Estonia.
Estonie. Estonia.