A policy maker training on the nature, prevention and treatment of drug use disorders was organized for 50 participants in coordination with the National Board of Drugs (Uruguay), the UNODC Country Office in Peru and Ecuador, and the UNODC regional section for Latin America from 9-11 September 2019 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

In the opening of the meeting, the Secretary General of the National Board of Drugs (Diego Oliveira) outlined the national strategy on drugs. Moreover, a leading national expert Dr Antonio Pascale presented the toxicology of different substances available in the country...

The document prepared by Dr. Roberto Canay and Dr. Monica Napoli, in conjunction with the Technical Team of MSAL and subject to review by the Council of Experts.

Currently, there have been changes in the type of alcohol consumption that manifest the decrease in the age of onset, averaging thirteen years, with higher consumption on weekends in a short period of time. There is also an increase in the entrance to guards for acute alcohol poisoning and related complications.

In this situation, a strategy that facilitates the inclusion of the EAEC as a health problem is proposed by providing...

The purpose of this study is to characterize the prevalence of the use and abuse of alcohol in high school students in Buenos Aires City. During October 2014, 2870 surveys were collected on a representative sample, probabilistic and two-stages type, of the population of young people in both public and private high schools. The results show that 66.9 % of the students consume alcohol at some point in their life and that the average age of their first consumption is 13.7 years old. Alcohol abuse accounts for the 81.9% of the consumption within the last 30 days the study was conducted.

The Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM) is an instrument designed to measure the progress of actions taken by the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) to address the hemispheric drug problem and other related crimes.

Conclusion

In sum, this drug user population in Guatemala City is at heightened risk of HIV, although some of the
risk results from overlap with vulnerability experienced as members of groups at heightened risk, such
as gay/bisexual men, transgender women, and sex workers. Future HIV programming should expand to
include HIV prevention in drug programs and drug prevention/treatment in HIV prevention activities.