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Looking at the brain to understand drug addiction

di Valentina Daelli
Pubblicato il 18/07/2014
Neuroscience
Medicine

An increasing complexity seems to characterize the scenario of the European drug problem. The picture that emerges from the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) 2014 report, published last May, highlights a stable general situation, in which new problems and threats appear. Drug users seem to represent a complex continuum from rare experimental use and habitual, compulsive use: a pattern that differs from the old dichotomy between a small group of “hard” drug addicts and a larger group of recreational users.

Health in Europe. Improvement through cooperation

di Cristina Da Rold
Pubblicato il 15/07/2014
Global Health
Medicine
Organizations

Talking about the European Region does not mean speaking of a homogeneous situation, also from the point of view of health. To realize how complex and articulated the European scenario is, just think that in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova and Turkey twice as many children die before the age of five if the figures are compared with so-called industrialized countries. Not to mention the infectious diseases, the use of alcohol and tobacco, which reflect a Europe still deeply layered and with several countries still extremely dependent on their history.