2011
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2011.576745
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New Toxics, New Poverty: A Social Understanding of the Freebase Cocaine/Paco in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract: Included within the field of research on changes in drug use patterns and vulnerability are conditions of emergency related to economic crisis, wars, and political conflict. This study addresses the complex connections between the rapid propagation of freebase cocaine (FBC)-locally known as "pasta base" or "Paco" in Argentina and the normalization of the consequences of Argentina's 2001-2002 political-economic crisis. On the basis of the results of an ethnographic study carried out in three neighborhoods of th… Show more

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“…An extensive -although not precisely estimated -proportion of cocaine use occurs in the form of crack-cocaine use (i.e., the smoked/inhaled use of freebase cocaine), a substance widely and cheaply available in the Americas and increasingly in Europe (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), 2007; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2012). While -for example, due to the predominant marginalization (Fischer & Coghlan, 2007) -most crack users are not captured by general population surveys, studies from various national jurisdictions have documented sizeable crack use problems in numerous European countries (Haasen, Prinzleve, Gossop, Fischer, & Casas, 2005;Hay et al, 2010;Hope, Hickman, & Tilling, 2005;Ilse, Prinzleve, Zurhold, & Haasan, 2006;Oliveira, Ponce, & Nappo, 2010;Pérez, Cruyff, Benschop, & Korf, 2013;Prinzleve et al, 2004;Stoever, 2002); Canada and the US (Buchanan et al, 2006;Falck, Wang, & Carlson, 2007;Fischer et al, 2006;Santibanez et al, 2005;Werb et al, 2010); Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador Santos Cruz et al, 2013a;Dickson-Gomez, Bodnar, Guevara, Rodriguez, & Gaborit, 2007;Dualibi, Ribeiro, & Laranjeira, 2008;Epele, 2011). Among many street drug user populations in North and South America, crackcocaine is reported to be the most commonly used non-injection drug (Dualibi et al, 2008;Fischer & Coghlan, 2007;Strathdee & Stockman, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…An extensive -although not precisely estimated -proportion of cocaine use occurs in the form of crack-cocaine use (i.e., the smoked/inhaled use of freebase cocaine), a substance widely and cheaply available in the Americas and increasingly in Europe (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), 2007; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2012). While -for example, due to the predominant marginalization (Fischer & Coghlan, 2007) -most crack users are not captured by general population surveys, studies from various national jurisdictions have documented sizeable crack use problems in numerous European countries (Haasen, Prinzleve, Gossop, Fischer, & Casas, 2005;Hay et al, 2010;Hope, Hickman, & Tilling, 2005;Ilse, Prinzleve, Zurhold, & Haasan, 2006;Oliveira, Ponce, & Nappo, 2010;Pérez, Cruyff, Benschop, & Korf, 2013;Prinzleve et al, 2004;Stoever, 2002); Canada and the US (Buchanan et al, 2006;Falck, Wang, & Carlson, 2007;Fischer et al, 2006;Santibanez et al, 2005;Werb et al, 2010); Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador Santos Cruz et al, 2013a;Dickson-Gomez, Bodnar, Guevara, Rodriguez, & Gaborit, 2007;Dualibi, Ribeiro, & Laranjeira, 2008;Epele, 2011). Among many street drug user populations in North and South America, crackcocaine is reported to be the most commonly used non-injection drug (Dualibi et al, 2008;Fischer & Coghlan, 2007;Strathdee & Stockman, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Já em Buenos Aires, Argentina, Epele 13 associa o aumento no consumo de drogas por parte das populações socialmente vulneráveis às reformas neoliberais ocorridas no país no fim dos anos 1990 e início dos anos 2000, o que culminou no agravamento da situação de pobreza e exclusão social em que essas pessoas viviam. Epele 13 destaca, ainda, que à época da disseminação intensa do tráfico e do uso do paco, havia uma combinação complexa de crise econômica e política que resultou, por um lado, no desmantelamento de estruturas sociais importantes, com aumento nas taxas de desemprego e redução de benefícios previdenciários e iniciativas correlatas de proteção/ promoção social, e, por outro (complementar), na deterioração do sistema público e/ou da privatização desordenada do sistema de saúde.…”
Section: Uso De Crack Exclusão E Vulnerabilidade Socialunclassified
“…Epele 13 destaca, ainda, que à época da disseminação intensa do tráfico e do uso do paco, havia uma combinação complexa de crise econômica e política que resultou, por um lado, no desmantelamento de estruturas sociais importantes, com aumento nas taxas de desemprego e redução de benefícios previdenciários e iniciativas correlatas de proteção/ promoção social, e, por outro (complementar), na deterioração do sistema público e/ou da privatização desordenada do sistema de saúde. O desemprego e o colapso das já modestas políticas sociais comprometeram ainda mais a obtenção e a garantia de direitos essenciais à vida, como o acesso à saúde e à moradia.…”
Section: Uso De Crack Exclusão E Vulnerabilidade Socialunclassified
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