Estratégia e plano de ação sobre saúde mental para a região das Américas

Rodríguez, Jorge

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“…46 In developing countries, the discrepancy in treatment, namely, patients who need health care but do not receive it, reaches 75%, and in Latin America this rate is even greater. 48 Until the beginning of the 2000s, there were no specific public policies for the consumption of illicit drugs in Brazil. At that time, the offer of health care services for drug users was limited to universities or to deficient hospitals that were subject to interdiction and closure by government regulatory agencies.…”

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Paradigms of Public Policies for Licit and Illicit Drugs in Brazil

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Brazil is a country of continental dimensions that, over the last 3 decades, has been making increased efforts to develop effective public policies for controlling the use of both licit and illicit psychoactive substances. In the case of licit drugs, Brazil was a pioneer in following the guidance of the World Health Organization for tobacco control and has witnessed surprising results relating to reduction of smoking prevalence and correlated morbidity and mortality. Today, Brazil has a national structure for organizing, applying, and monitoring laws relating to tobacco. However, in the field of illicit drugs, with crack consumption as a paradigm, the situation is the opposite: its use has been increasing year by year and is being consumed at increasingly young ages and by all social classes. Thus, it is becoming an enormous challenge for public policies relating to prevention and treatment. In this context, the aim of this article is to present a review of the epidemiological data relating to tobacco and crack use in Brazil, with an analysis on the impact of public policies for controlling consumption over recent years. Despite the efforts made over the last 3 decades, Brazil still has a long way to go in order to construct a consistent and effective national drugs policy.

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Section: Cocainementioning

confidence: 99%