Crack across the Americas – A massive problem in continued search of viable answers: Exemplary views from the North (Canada) and the South (Brazil)

Fischer, Benedikt; Cruz, Marcelo Santos; Bastos, Francisco I.; Tyndall, Mark W.

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.09.003

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“…In addition, it significantly affects the health and quality of life of users and their families. 23,24 Women introduced changes in the culture of drug use, especially regarding to sexual behavior. Lack of financial conditions can lead them to engage in unlawful activities and unprotected sexual intercourse in exchange for drugs or money, making them subject to the risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.…”

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Narrative of a drug user's daughter: impact on family daily routine

2017

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Objective: To understand the repercussions of coexisting with the drug use in a family based on the daughter's narrative of a woman who is a multiple drugs user. Method: A case study with a family accessed in 2014, through the records of a Poison Control Center in the North of Paraná. It was used a semi-structured interview and field journal, and resources of thematic oral history to apprehend the story, from the question "How is/was for you and your family to live with a mother who is a drug user?” Results: The daughter's memories emphasized repercussions in the family context: long-term of living with drug abuse; absence or transience of the motherly figure, with rupture processes for homeless situation; cycle of parental disruption/forgiveness and continued presence and fatherly support. Final considerations: The narrative indicated a family that could be added to the process of rehabilitation and social reintegration of the female drug user.

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“…Global literature has documented the health-related harms, including infectious disease transmissions, associated with crack use practices (Dickson-Gomez, et al 2013, Von Diemen, et al 2010, Fischer, et al 2013). Although harm reduction strategies have been developed to reduce drug users’ health risks, few interventions are specifically tailored for crack smokers (Domanico and Malta 2012, Wechsberg, et al 2012).…”

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“…These injuries are caused by exposure to hot smoke and metal and are associated with the transmission of infections (Leonard, et al 2008). Despite these efforts in some countries, they are nearly nonexistent in Latin America and across the globe where rates of crack continue to increase (Fischer, et al 2013, Santos Cruz, et al 2013, Villatoro, et al 2012). …”

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Un Jalón, Un Volteón, y Otra Vez: High-Risk Crack Smoking Paraphernalia in México City

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Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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During the past decade, crack smoking has increased in Mexico among poor urban populations. Despite this increasing prevalence, little is known about the types of paraphernalia used and related sharing practices and physical harms. Data come from in-depth semi-structured interviews and observations with 156 current crack smokers in Mexico City. Findings reveal a complex, crack-smoking process in Mexico City that represents an interconnected structure of paraphernalia items and pipes that could contribute to detrimental health consequences. Specifically, we identify essential paraphernalia items that make the smoking of crack possible; describe the home- made construction of two categories of pipes; and the sharing practices and physical harms associated with these paraphernalia. Results point towards a smoking process that is embedded in impoverished urban neighborhoods sustained by an accessible street-level crack market. Discussed are the policy and intervention implications associated with reducing crack related health consequences in Mexico and other Latin American countries.

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“…Statistical data also often ignores how many of the consumers involved in crime engaged in such activities prior to crack use. The correlation between crack use and violence fails to explain why violence among crack consumers is widespread in Brazil, yet almost nonexistent in Canada (Fischer, Cruz, Bastos, & Tyndall, 2013). Goldstein and colleagues (1997) found that the violence linked to crack use in the US was primarily the result of territorial disputes between rival dealers, not the result of any psychopharmacological properties of the drug.…”

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“Crack Ends it all?” A Study of the Interrelations between Crack Cocaine, Social Environments, Social Relations, Crime, and Homicide among Poor, Young Men in Urban Brazil

Ursin¹

2014

Contemporary Drug Problems

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In this article, actor network theory is used to explore the consumption of crack cocaine in street settings. The article is based on multiple periods of fieldwork over several years among young men in Salvador, Brazil. The contribution of the article is three-fold. First, it explores how two different socio-spatial contexts -the poor favela communities and the street settings located in a middle-class neighborhood -mediate and are mediated by crack use. Second, it examines how social relations are reconfigured, in the eyes of the users, after the arrival of the drug. Third, based on the users' accounts, it examines the causality between crack use, street crime and homicide often emphasized in public discourse and medical research. By focusing on the complex processes in which crack use, street crime and homicides are embedded, the article problematizes such causalities and demonstrates the numerous actants involved, such as legal income-generating possibilities and public safety for crack consumers in the favelas and on the streets.

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Crack across the Americas – A massive problem in continued search of viable answers: Exemplary views from the North (Canada) and the South (Brazil)

Cited by 35 publications

References 49 publications

Narrative of a drug user's daughter: impact on family daily routine

Narrative of a drug user's daughter: impact on family daily routine

Un Jalón, Un Volteón, y Otra Vez: High-Risk Crack Smoking Paraphernalia in México City

“Crack Ends it all?” A Study of the Interrelations between Crack Cocaine, Social Environments, Social Relations, Crime, and Homicide among Poor, Young Men in Urban Brazil

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