Medical College of Wisconsin, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2011;46(4):426-39. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2010.495762. Epub 2010 Aug 24.
Crack use has increased dramatically in El Salvador in the last few decades. As with other developing countries with sudden onsets of drug problems, El Salvador has few medical staff trained in addictions treatment. Little research has examined drug users? attempts to reduce or abstain from drug use in countries where government-regulated formal medical treatment for drug addiction is scarce. This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data gathered from active crack users to explore their formal and informal strategies to reduce or abstain from drugs, and compares these with components of informal and formal treatment in developed countries.
在过去几十年中，萨尔瓦多的毒品滥用问题急剧增加。与其他突然出现毒品问题的发展中国家一样，萨尔瓦多接受成瘾治疗培训的医疗人员很少。很少有研究调查过在政府监管的正式戒毒治疗稀缺的国家中，吸毒者试图减少或戒除毒品的情况。本文使用从活跃的可卡因使用者那里收集的定性和定量数据，探讨了他们减少或戒除毒品的正式和非正式策略，并将这些策略与发达国家的非正式和正式治疗的组成部分进行了比较。
