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.

Los Tribunales de Tratamiento de Drogas (TTD) surgieron como una alternativa al encarcelamiento diseñado para abordar este problema. Los TTD enfatizan el tratamiento comunitario intensivo de consumo de sustancias y la supervisión judicial de individuos acusados por delitos relacionados con drogas. El juez del TTD dirige un equipo multidisciplinario de profesionales que en general incluye representantes de la fiscalía, de la defensa, de las instituciones de tratamiento, la policía y el departamento de libertad condicional. Los miembros del equipo se reúnen con frecuencia para examinar el...