Lors du 6e Congrès international Freemind, qui s’est tenu du 4 au 7 décembre 2019 à Águas de Lindóia/SP – Brésil, nous avons eu la présence du Dr William D. Crano, qui occupe la chaire Oskamp et est professeur de psychologie à la Division des sciences comportementales et organisationnelles de la Claremont Graduate University.

Le Dr William a participé à un panel dont le thème était « La cigarette courante et les nouvelles façons de s’intoxiquer avec de la nicotine » et a abordé la question de l’essor des cigarettes électroniques (vapes) et du rétablissement de la nicotine comme dépendance...

Research carried out at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) – Brazil has developed a particle capable of capturing cocaine circulating in the blood of a living organism. The formulation proved to be efficient even in lethal doses of the drug, which means that it can reverse an overdose that would lead to death. It is the first time that a particle produced from nanotechnology has been used for this purpose.

The work was developed in the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences at UFG by researcher Sarah Rodrigues Fernandes, under the guidance of Professor Eliana Martins Lima. They...

La ville d’Água Branca, dans l’État de Piauí, a développé le projet « Bien vivre, c’est vivre sans drogue », en raison des nombreuses demandes des familles souffrant de ces facteurs. Le Centre de Soutien en Santé Familiale d’Água Branca reçoit fréquemment des familles référées par les Stratégies de Santé Familiale qui souffrent beaucoup en raison de l’utilisation de drogues par un ou plusieurs membres de la famille.

Le projet vise à agir de manière préventive, en renforçant la qualité de vie et en renforçant les liens familiaux et sociaux.

La période de l’adolescence est comprise comme le...

COMORBIDADE

Comorbidade pode ser definida como a coocorrência de duas ou mais enfermidades ou transtornos, em uma mesma pessoa, num determinado período de tempo (ou por tempo indeterminado).

A manifestação de transtornos mentais e de comportamento, decorrentes do uso de drogas e de outros transtornos psiquiátricos, vem sendo bastante estudada desde os anos 80. Pode-se dizer que o abuso de substâncias psicoativas é o transtorno coexistente mais frequente entre os portadores de transtornos mentais, sendo fundamental o correto diagnóstico das doenças envolvidas.

Os transtornos mais comuns...

Drugs are problems that integrate virtually all contemporary societies, causing great social and economic impacts. In Brazil, illicit drugs also finance crime and violence, so their fight remains a huge challenge for our country.

Most users are young and start using these substances still at school, at an increasingly premature age. The truth is that, both in large metropolises and in regions farther from Brazilian territory, consumption and addiction start more and earlier.

According to the Brazilian Center for Information on Psychotropic Drugs (CEBRID), adolescence is a period of...

University students are considered a risk population with regard to alcohol consumption, either by frequency of consumption or its consequences, which can even considerably affect the academic performance of the student. For this reason, alcohol consumption in this population has been the focus of concerns and searches for effective interventions to reduce consumption, as well as associated problems and consequences.

According to data from the United Nations (UN, 2013), alcohol is the most consumed psychoactive substance in the world, with significant growth in consumption among university...

What is prevention?
I think the definition of "prevention science" by the Academic Science for Prevention Network (SPAN) fully encompasses the role of this field. It is a very rich field in terms of combining and using knowledge from many disciplines to consider etiology, epidemiology, intervention design, efficacy and implementation for the prevention of a variety of health and social problems. We don't just talk about substance use prevention, but also violence, suicide, obesity, mental illness, sexual health, chronic disease, etc. We focus on behavior as a determinant of poor health and...

A study by Lucia Parente and Luís Camboim reports the abusive presence of alcohol consumption by children and adolescents in our society. Alcoholism is a serious problem and considered a public health risk. Laws no. 9,294/96 and 8,069/90 prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages to children under eighteen years of age, as a way to prevent young people from the consequences arising from this type of narcotics.

The indices show that the accessibility of young people to alcohol occurs frequently. It is perceived that children and adolescents use alcoholic beverages frequently, thus...

Muitas pessoas não sabem que dependência química é uma doença crônica que possui tratamento. Ela se caracteriza pelo abuso de álcool, maconha, cocaína, crack ou outras substâncias entorpecentes, lícitas ou ilícitas. Esse tipo de doença afeta todos os aspectos da vida de um indivíduo e pode ser causado por múltiplos fatores genéticos, ambientais, sociais, familiares e individuais. A facilidade de acesso às drogas aumenta a incidência desse transtorno no mundo, tornando o tratamento e prevenção da dependência química um assunto de saúde pública.

Segundo dados do Relatório Mundial sobre Drogas...

Um estudo realizado pelo Mestre em Psicologia - Evaldo de Souza Fernandes, da Universidade de Brasília, abordou diversos pontos sobre a prevenção ao uso de substâncias, no quesito familiar, escolar e social. 

O uso de drogas ganhou destaque nas últimas décadas do século XX. De acordo com as estatísticas, entre 3,5% e 7,0% da população mundial na faixa etária dos 15 aos 64 anos são usuárias de algum tipo de droga ilícita. Hoje em dia, o fenômeno da drogadição e seus desdobramentos já são considerados, em escala mundial, uma grande questão social e de saúde.

No Brasil, o panorama também é...