Tough Tradeoffs: Coca crops and agrarian alternatives in Colombia

Sanín, Francisco Gutiérrez

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103156

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“…Colombia in particular has a long history of cocaine trade and continues to be involved in its production and cultivation ( 10 ). Twitter and scientific articles discuss the complex sociopolitical context of cocaine crops in this country, analyzing the problem comprehensively ( 50 , 51 ).…”

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Insights from the Twittersphere: a cross-sectional study of public perceptions, usage patterns, and geographical differences of tweets discussing cocaine

Castillo-Toledo,

Fraile-Martínez,

Donat-Vargas

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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IntroductionCocaine abuse represents a major public health concern. The social perception of cocaine has been changing over the decades, a phenomenon closely tied to its patterns of use and abuse. Twitter is a valuable tool to understand the status of drug use and abuse globally. However, no specific studies discussing cocaine have been conducted on this platform.Methods111,508 English and Spanish tweets containing “cocaine” from 2018 to 2022 were analyzed. 550 were manually studied, and the largest subset underwent automated classification. Then, tweets related to cocaine were analyzed to examine their content, types of Twitter users, usage patterns, health effects, and personal experiences. Geolocation data was also considered to understand regional differences.ResultsA total of 71,844 classifiable tweets were obtained. Among these, 15.95% of users discussed the harm of cocaine consumption to health. Media outlets had the highest number of tweets (35.11%) and the most frequent theme was social/political denunciation (67.88%). Regarding the experience related to consumption, there are more tweets with a negative sentiment. The 9.03% of tweets explicitly mention frequent use of the drug. The continent with the highest number of tweets was America (55.44% of the total).DiscussionThe findings underscore the significance of cocaine as a current social and political issue, with a predominant focus on political and social denunciation in the majority of tweets. Notably, the study reveals a concentration of tweets from the United States and South American countries, reflecting the high prevalence of cocaine-related disorders and overdose cases in these regions. Alarmingly, the study highlights the trivialization of cocaine consumption on Twitter, accompanied by a misleading promotion of its health benefits, emphasizing the urgent need for targeted interventions and antidrug content on social media platforms. Finally, the unexpected advocacy for cocaine by healthcare professionals raises concerns about potential drug abuse within this demographic, warranting further investigation.

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confidence: 99%

Insights from the Twittersphere: a cross-sectional study of public perceptions, usage patterns, and geographical differences of tweets discussing cocaine

Castillo-Toledo,

Fraile-Martínez,

Donat-Vargas

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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“…Our results are comparable to those reported by Franklin and Pindyck (2018), who estimated the present value of lost economic benefits per hectare of deforestation at 3789 US$ per hectare for seven ESs in the great Amazon basin across nine countries. Higher colonization pressures may explain the remarkably high deforestation rates in the departments of Caquetá and Putumayo, together with the expansion of the frontiers of agriculture and intensified illegal coca growing (Correa-Ayram et al, 2020;Gutiérrez-Sanín, 2021).…”

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A first approximation to the Colombian Amazon basin remnant natural capital. Policy and development implications

Agudelo

Gutiérrez-Bonilla

Cortés-Gómez

et al. 2022

Trees, Forests and People

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“…Whilst domestic UK drug market violence related to cocaine powder is lower relative to crack cocaine (and other drugs such as heroin), the international market is lucrative, and so is characterised by a high level of societal harm, including violence; human rights violations; stalling of economic development goals; environmental damage from drug production and crop eradication; militarisation of criminal markets and law enforcement responses; and state corruption (e.g. Aziani, 2020;Burns-Edel, 2016;Guti errez-San ın, 2021;Keefer et al, 2008;Salisbury and Fagan, 2013;UNODC, 2006UNODC, , 2010Werb et al, 2011). Whilst there is little evidence to suggest that international drug control has been effective in disrupting the global supply of cocaine, paradoxically, prohibition, enforcement, and other policy actions may have promoted harm as both the risks of market participation and financial rewards have increased (Werb et al, 2011).…”

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Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use

Sumnall

Montgomery

Atkinson

et al. 2021

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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There has been recent UK media attention on the global impact of the cocaine trade and the morality of personal use of cocaine powder. In this study we investigated whether people who use cocaine engage in moral disengagement (MD) strategies to reduce anticipated guilt associated with use. Participants read text describing the impact of the global cocaine market on others and completed a range of measures including assessments of substance use, MD, anticipated guilt, internalised moral identity, and empathy. We hypothesised that cocaine-related MD would positively predict cocaine use, and this would be partly mediated by anticipated guilt. Complete data were obtained from 254 participants through an anonymous cross-sectional survey (59.8% Female; mean age 30.8 ± 12.6 years). Our hypotheses were supported; (i) MD predicted cocaine use positively and anticipated guilt negatively; (ii) anticipated guilt negatively predicted cocaine use; anticipated guilt partially mediated the relationship between MD and cocaine use. People who use powder cocaine may use MD to reduce the anticipated guilt associated with knowledge of the harms associated with the drugs trade. Campaigns that focus on the morality of cocaine use or ethical choices may therefore have limited impact unless MD is challenged as part of these campaigns.

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Tough Tradeoffs: Coca crops and agrarian alternatives in Colombia

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

Insights from the Twittersphere: a cross-sectional study of public perceptions, usage patterns, and geographical differences of tweets discussing cocaine

Insights from the Twittersphere: a cross-sectional study of public perceptions, usage patterns, and geographical differences of tweets discussing cocaine

A first approximation to the Colombian Amazon basin remnant natural capital. Policy and development implications

Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use

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