Maria da Gloria Miotto Wright

TL;DR: The International Research Capacity-Building Program for Nurses to Study the Drug Phenomenon in the Americas has fostered the kind of inter-cultural respect and mutual appreciation necessary to confront the global health problem of the abuse of both licit and illicit drugs.

TL;DR: For nurses to become major contributors to international health, nursing curriculum content must shift from "international nursing" to "international health." programs of nursing education should include study of social, economic, and political factors that affect health care systems.

TL;DR: Information about the perspective of relatives/acquaintances of illicit drug users about protective and risk factors, prevention initiatives, treatment services, and legal aspects regarding illicit drugs is presented, showing that there is a need for actions that consider different perspectives at different levels.

TL;DR: Pesquisa quantitativa, descritiva e exploratoria, com desenho transversal, examinou o efeito moderador de certos fatores socioculturais no consumo de drogas entre estudantes universitarios em San Jose, Costa Rica.

TL;DR: The authors in this article investigated the influence of socio-cultural factors on the consumo of drugs among students in Costa Rica, and concluye que deben ser implementadas estrategias preventivas considerando the influencia of los factores culturales entre los estudiantes universitarios.