That’s the title for Intercambios’ new book, whose authors are Paula Goltzman and Eva Amorin. With the support of the Levi Strauss Foundation, this publication recovers work strategies used by different teams that address problematic drug use. Read the full publication here (Spanish)
This publication, co-edited by Intercambios Civil Association and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, has some continuity with the work done in Overloaded Systems (Metaal and Youngers, 2010) where there was an inquiry about imprisonment for drug offenses in different Latin American countries, and in Imprisonment for drug offenses in Argentina (Corda, 2011), which deepens the same problem in our country. a The author of the research, Alejandro Corda, lawyer and member of Intercambios, proposes [...]
The National Health Department and Intercambios Civil Association, with the support of the PAHO/WHO, edited the publication with the objective of providing guidelines for the intervention and research on drug use and HIV. The document describes the current situation including State and Civil Society initiatives in research and intervention in order to prevent transmission and promote the treatment of HIV for people that use drugs, analyze drug users’ accessibility to the health system, and offer intervention guidelines, among other resources. [...]
This book unites the debates presented at the 1st and 2nd Latin American Conferences on Drug Policy, which took place in Buenos Aires in 2009 and Río de Janeiro in 2010. Its objective is to contribute to the regional debate and be a useful tool for those who are committed to a drug policy reform project that assures stigma reduction and criminalization of various sectors of our communities, access to extensive systems of social protection through increasing recourses and reorienting [...]
This publication, edited by the University of Buenos Aires and the civil association Intercambios, is a study that analyzes the profile of imprisoned people due to drugs, which is the second highest cause of imprisonment in the Federal Penitentiary System. The investigation’s author, Alejandro Corda, lawyer and member of Intercambios, claims: “It became clear that, due to the form in which the Drug Law 23.737 was applied, imprisonments relapse upon two groups in particular: women and foreigners. If the penal [...]
Compiled by: Touzé, G. y Goltzman, P. Edited by Intercambios Asociación Civil and Facultad de Ciencias Sociales from Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2010, ISBN 978-987-98893-6-7. Collection of all the presentations made by a renowned group of international experts who participated in the V and VI National Conference on Drug Policy that was held in the Auditorium in the Annex Building of Honorable Camera of Deputies, Buenos Aires, in 2007 and 2008. This text can be found at Intercambios Civil Association’ [...]
Views and actors in the debate. III and IV National Conference about Drug Policy Compiled by: Touzé, G. Edited by Intercambios Asociación Civil and Facultad de Ciencias Sociales from Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2008. ISBN: 978-987-98893-5-0. This book, the product of a collaboration between academic and civil society, is a collection of the presentations of a national and internationally prestigious group that participated in the III and IV National Conference on Drug Politics that took place in the Auditorium in [...]
Organizer: Touzé, G. Edited by Intercambios Asociación Civil and Federación Internacional de Universidades Católicas, Buenos Aires, 2006. ISBN 987-98893-3-9. The intention of this study is to contribute to the comprehension of the consumption of cocaine base paste, the use of which is now a standard in Argentina. The book debates the conceptual constructions that support several different methods of intervention, and also articulates the specifics of drug use which have interrelationships with biological, psychological, socio-economic, political and cultural processes. It [...]
