Gender effects on drug use, abuse, and dependence: A special analysis of results from the national survey on drug use and health

The Relationship between Socio-Demographics and Stress Levels, Stressors, and Coping Mechanisms among Undergraduate Students at a University in Barbados

“…Our finding that a higher percentage of male students use more avoidant coping strategies (Allen & Holder, 2013;Chen et al, 2009) such as drugs is consistent with the literature (see Bottorff et al, 2009;Cotto, Davis, Dowling, Elcano, Staton, & Weiss, 2010). Although marijuana use is illegal and carries a social stigma, males are more likely to smoke marijuana perhaps due to the influence of the Rastafarian culture embedded in the Caribbean.…”

Diferencias de género en la gravedad de la adicción

“…En relación con el perfil de gravedad de la adicción, cuando se observan las PSRs, se ve que hay pocas diferencias, y éstas muestran que las mujeres tienen significativamente mayor gravedad en los dominios de la vida relacionas con la salud mental y los problemas con la pareja. Sin embargo, cuando se consideran diferentes ítems del ASI-6 de modo individual, los hombres de este estudio presentan más problemas relacionados con el uso de sustancias en todas las áreas de la vida, salvo en los relativos al estado psicológico y al área de las relaciones sociales, en consonancia con lo que muestran otros estudios (Cotto et al, 2010;Kopak et al, 2012;Najt et al, 2011;Palmer et al, 2010).…”

Medico-legal issues of body packing: what do clinicians need to know?

“…93 In Europe, for every two girls who use cannabis there are three boys, whereas the prevalence of cannabis use among adults is nearly twice as high among men than among women. 94 In the United States, the use of cannabis, cocaine and prescription opioids among young people (ages 12-17) was fluctuating over the past decade but overall the gender gap has remained similar.…”

“…UNODC, for example, estimated that, in 2009, the average wholesale price of cocaine in Bolivia (Plurinational State of ), Colombia and Peru was only 1 per cent of the retail price in the United States (after taking purity levels into account), while the corresponding percentage in Mexico was 7 per cent. 93,94 As a result, in absolute terms, only a small com- However, the size of the illicit economy associated with drugs, relative to the licit economy, tends to be higher in drug-producing countries than in the consumer markets. This is partly because the licit economy in some drugproducing countries is relatively small and partly because supply is concentrated in those few countries.…”