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• Title: Stigmatization of Illicit Drug Use Among Puerto Rican Health Professionals in Training.
• Author : Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 232 KB

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Illicit Drug use in Puerto Rico Illicit drug use is attributed as the source of a plethora of social problems in Puerto Rico. Media outlets constantly report on drug related issues and directly or indirectly suggest illegal drug use as the problem's source. Still, less than ten studies have attempted to assess the magnitude of illicit drug use in Puerto Rico (1-6). Although these studies used different methodological approaches, they all evidence the phenomenon of illicit drug use and subsequent dependence affects less than 8.2% of the population (7). Nevertheless, the social consequences of the approaches taken towards illicit drug use yield even more negative consequences than the drugs themselves. For example, it has been stated that illicit drug trade in Puerto Rico is responsible for 63% of the homicides in the island (8). While in 1986 1.6 of homicides were related to illicit drug trade, by 2001 this number had increased 63% (8). Ever since the seventies the homicide rate (per 100,000 people) in Puerto Rico has continued to grow: 8.7 in 1970, 15 in 1980, 16.5 in 1990, and 18.3 in 2000 (9). In 2008 the homicide rate was 20 per 100,000 (10).

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