Items tagged with brazil and crack
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| Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean [01.03.2020] | The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expan ... |
| Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick [27.11.2017] | The brazen drug scene of Cracolândia is unlike nearly anything in any city in the world – hundreds and sometimes thousands of addicts, congregating o ... |
| Why João Doria’s war on drugs is doomed [12.07.2017] | When São Paulo Mayor João Doria set out to fulfil a campaign promise and rid the city of its cracolândia (crackland), an area that was home to a grou ... |
| Wrecking to ‘revitalise’: São Paulo expels drug users and razes buildings, claiming public safety [16.06.2017] | On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown neighbourhood where, since the late 1990s, hundreds to thousands of crack-cocaine ... |
| São Paulo’s drug policies are working – will the new mayor kill them? [20.10.2016] | A harm-reduction approach, De Braços Abertos (“With Open Arms”), to homeless crack use in São Paulo’s city centre hangs in the balance. For over two ... |
| The interplay between drug-use behaviors, settings, and access to care [14.08.2015] | Despite the growing attention surrounding crack cocaine use in Brazil, little is understood about crack users’ histories, use patterns and the interp ... |
| Is São Paulo's drug treatment program working? [21.01.2015] | Authorities say crack use has dropped 80 percent in São Paulo's notorious "Crackland" district since the implementation of With Open Arms ("De Braços ... |
| Controversial São Paulo project offers jobs to crack addicts in Cracolândia [28.10.2014] | On a mild winter morning in São Paulo, two dozen people pick up brooms and rubbish bins from a warehouse. They wear blue jumpsuits with a De Braços A ... |
| Crack cocaine is king in Brazil: What Sao Paulo is doing about it [25.04.2014] | São Paulo's Cracolândia has been here for 15 years. Its population hovered around 1,500. The city recently took over a collection of flophouses aroun ... |
| Crack cocaine users: New data from Brazil [15.10.2013] | Last September, the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Justice presented data of two key surveys – “Estimated number of crack and similar drug users ... |
| Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program [08.05.2013] | Sao Paulo State expanded its attack on crack cocaine by unveiling a program that will provide about $650 a month in subsidies for the rehabilitation ... |
| Cracolândia: the crack capital of Brazil where addicts are forced to seek help [08.05.2013] | With Brazil gripped by a crack epidemic, the authorities have launched a series of controversial initiatives. Since the start of last year, São Paulo ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [05.04.2013] | São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar district ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [25.02.2013] | The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began ... |
| Anti-Crack Efforts Miss Targets: Daily [14.01.2013] | The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets, reports O Globo. As of the ... |
| Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic [30.12.2012] | With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legality an ... |
| Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio [18.08.2012] | Once crack was introduced about six years ago, Mandela and the surrounding complex of shantytowns became Rio's main outdoor drug market, a "cracoland ... |
| In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard [18.07.2011] | About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across th ... |
| Crack untamed: treat users, kill the market [07.05.2010] | Brazil will soon have a special police task force targeting crack-cocaine. Meanwhile, the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais proposes its own drug fight ... |
| Characterization of the crack cocaine culture in the city of São Paulo: a controlled pattern of use [01.07.2008] | In the city of São Paulo, the culture of crack use has undergone considerable changes over these 11 years since it was first described. The sociodemo ... |
| 'Paco' Under Scrutiny [01.10.2006] | Based on two studies carried out in the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this report examines the origin, characteristics and impact of the exp ... |
| Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Crack Addicts in Brazil [01.10.1999] | This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they ... |
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