Citation

Medina-Mora ME, Real T, Villatoro J, Natera G. Salud Publica Mex. 2013; 55(1): 67-73.

Vernacular Title

Las drogas y la salud pública: ¿hacia dónde vamos?

Affiliation

Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, México, DF, México.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23370260

Abstract

This paper describes a plan for the attention of addictions from a public health perspective; it defines strengths of this perspective and its limitations to face the special challenges that the problem represents for social policies; adopts a wider perspective that includes the integration of health and social issues in measuring policy results having as a main aim the benefit of the person and of the communities with a perspective of the populations well being. It describes the challenge the country faces as producer, route of traffic and rates of consumption, analyzes briefly the evidence of public policies and makes a series of recommendations.

Language: es