Ronaldo Laranjeira

• Abstract

  Crack addiction has became a sever health problem in Brazil. Data from the second national epidemiologic survey points that 0.7% of all Brazilians have at least once smoked crack and that 0.2% are currently abusing from crack use. Although numbers related to crack use may look small, it is, for all illicit drugs, the substance which demands for treatment has had the highest growth in the …

  Evaluating the efficacy of contingency management in a standard open treatment facility for individuals with crack dependence disorder, AP.R

• Abstract

  The National Institute of Public Policy for Alcohol and Other Drugs (INPAD) is based at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and was created to collect scientific evidence regarding epidemiology, develop new therapeutic approaches, study health economics and provide education to subsidize the proper measures to change the Brazilian scenario of alcohol and drug consumption. Since i…

  National Institute of Public Policy for Alcohol and Other Drugs, AP.R

• Abstract

  Alcohol is one of the main factors contributing to the worsening of global health. In Brazil, 25% of the Brazilian population drinks so as to endanger their health. Violence, high spending on health, abstentions at work, decreased productivity, family destruction, low school performance and traffic accidents associated with alcohol are some of the consequences of such consumption. The soc…

  National Institute for Public Policy on Alcohol and Other Drugs, AP.TEM

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  Crack addiction has became a sever health problem in Brazil. Data from the second national epidemiologic survey points that 0.7% of all Brazilians have at least once smoked crack and that 0.2% are currently abusing from crack use. Although numbers related to crack use may look small, it is, for all illicit drugs, the substance which demands for treatment has had the highest growth in the …

  Evaluating the efficacy of Contingency Management in a standard open treatment facility for individuals with crack dependence disorder, BP.DD

• Abstract

  In Brazil there is a large number of teenagers violently victimized due to the negative effects of alcohol consumption. Sometimes, alcohol facilitates social relationships, however, it is also associated with homicides and accidents causing social, economic and health damages. These are reasons to justify the need for studies that will further contribute to the enrichment of the scarce na…

  Violent deaths of young people from São Paulo city: the role of alcohol and other associated factors, BP.MS
• Analise fatorial da university of rhode island change assessment scale (urica) e stages readiness and treatment eagerness scale (socrates) em alcoolistas., BP.DR