Presence Of Drug Use Research Articles

Drug use influence on mindfulness among nursing students.

To assess the association between the presence of drug use and the dimensions of mindfulness in a population of students of technical education in nursing. Correlational study conducted in a teaching institution in the inlands of the state of São Paulo, in 2017. Participants were 135 students for which the ASSIST questionnaire with personal characterization data and the Mindfulness Five-facet Questionnaire were applied. Data were analyzed with use of descriptive and analytical statistics. The most used drugs were alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. The lowest score for mindfulness was 49 and the maximum was 171 points. There was a positive association between the presence of drugs in the three previous months and the "non-reactivity to internal experience" facet (p=0.004). Although the association seems to be in line with the precepts of mindfulness, this fact cannot be considered positive if analyzed separately from the other concepts of mindfulness. Descriptors: Mindfulness; Substance Use Disorders; Nursing Students; Technical Education in Nursing; Mental Health.

Abalone conservation in the presence of drug use and corruption: implications for its management in South Africa

The illegal exploitation of wild abalone in South Africa has been escalating since 1994, despite increased enforcement, leading to collapse in some sections of its range. South Africa banned all wild abalone fishing in 2008 but controversially reopened the fishery in 2010. This paper formulates a poacher’s model, taking into account the realities of the abalone terrain in South Africa – the high-value of abalone, use of recreational drugs, the prevalence of bribery, and corruption – to explore why poaching has not subsided. The paper suggests two additional measures that might help ameliorate the situation: eliminating the demand side through targeted enforcement on organised crime, and ceding the resource to the local coastal communities. However, local communities need to be empowered to deal with organised crime groups. Complementary measures to bring back community patriotism will also be needed given the tattered social fabric of the local coastal communities.

Meeting a Binational Research Challenge: Substance Abuse Among Transnational Mexican Farmworkers in the United States

To help in understanding the manner in which community, individual, and other factors in the United States and Mexico contribute to drug use among transnational migrants, this paper introduces a binational social ecology model of substance abuse in this population. We draw on our 2 NIH-funded ethnographic studies-1 on problem drinking and the other on drug abuse-among transnational Mexican workers in the mushroom industry of southeastern Pennsylvania. Our model demonstrates that major reasons for substance abuse among transnational migrants include nontraditional living arrangements in labor camps and overcrowded apartments, the absence of kin and community deterrents to drug use, social isolation, the presence of drug use and binge drinking subcultures, the availability of drugs, family history of drugs, previous drug use or witnessing of drug use in Mexico, and drug use norms and drug availability in Mexico. It suggests the need for US and Mexican researchers to collaborate in binational teams and address factors on both sides of the border. Our binational social ecology model, together with our research recommendations, will assist alcohol and drug researchers to discover how community and individual factors in both the United States and abroad fit and interact beyond mere association and provide a more comprehensive research approach to substance abuse research among transnational migrants.

Música y drogodependencias: análisis de algunos tópicos sobre drogas encontrados en la música

Music is a key element in juvenile culture. We look at the presence of a number of topics -classified in 10 groups- related to drug dependency that we found in the lyrics of songs in four musical styles: pop, rock, punk and performers singing their own songs in a total of 323 compositions, and analysed a total of 489 references to drugs. The 10 analyzed topics are: drug addiction process, their legalisation and their relationship with “living from one day to the next”, music, with escape, drugs and leisure, amusement and free time, social and sexual relationships, their consequences and with diverse styles of life, as well as their use as metaphors and comparisons. We found a high presence of these topics in these lyrics and a wide differentiation in the treatment given to drug dependencies by the different musical styles analysed, all of which reinforces the basic hypothesis of the uncritical and cultural presence of drug use among the young, which could lead to a low risk perception.