The Pacardo research project
Youthful drug involvement in Central America and the Dominican Republic
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This report sheds new light on adolescent drug experiences in Panama, the five Spanish-heritage countries of Central America, and the Dominican Republic, and presents the first estimates of school-level clustering of youthful drug involvement in these seven countries. Placed in relation to school survey findings from North America and Europe, these estimates indicate lower levels of drug involvement in these seven countries of the Americas. For example, in the United States of America 70% of surveyed youths had tried alcohol and 59% had smoked tobacco. By comparison, in these seven countries, only 51% have tried alcohol and only 29% have smoked tobacco. Future research will help to clarify explanations for the observed variations across different countries of the world. In the meantime, strengthening of school-based and other prevention efforts in the seven-country PACARDO area may help these countries slow the spread of youthful drug involvement, reduce school-level clustering, and avoid the periodic epidemics of illegal drug use that have been experienced in North America
Drug · Ecstasy · Environmental health · Geography · Heroin · Latin Americans · Logistic regression · Odds ratio · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Demography · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Epidemiology
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| Intervalo de citações | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
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