Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) : REDLA - Latin American Epidemiology Work Group

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CICAD: Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)

REDLA - Latin American Epidemiology Work Group

The November 2011 meeting of REDLA at CICAD in Washington, DC.

The REDLA (Red Latinamericano de Investigaciones en Drogas) network is a group of academic researchers who share an interest in developing research on the drug problem and whose geographic focus and arena is Latin America. Our mission is to reduce the social burden of drugs through scientific research.

The REDLA network was created through a joint effort between the Organization of American States, through their Inter-American Drug Control Commission (CICAD) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), with the collaboration of the National Hispanic Science Network on Drugs (NHSN). The REDLA network is comprised of academic researchers from a variety of institutions in Latin America, and includes permanent liaisons to the national observatories within the national drug commissions in the hemisphere.

This network focuses on research examining cross-national issues on drug abuse in South America. In addition, REDLA is responsible for launching national drug information and monitoring networks in Colombia and Argentina, and expects to develop similar national networks in each of the participating countries, especially Central America. This type of network is well established in the Untied States where the Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG) set up nearly 20 local networks for tracking drug use trends (see the artcile on Community-Based Surveillance of Drug Use).

Book Chapters

Bares, C.B., Delva, J., Hynes, M., & Sanchez, N. (2012). Adolescent tobacco use in the Americas: The link with depression and anxiety (pp. 199-220). In V. Olisah (Ed.), Essential Notes in Psychiatry. InTech Pubs. Open source manuscript. Available online. PDF, 236 kb, 22 pages.

Articles

Matías Fernández H. "El costo socioeconómico del consumo de drogas ilícitas en Chile," Revista CEPAL 107, August 2012. (PDF, 192 kb, 22 pages - only in Spanish)

Abstracts of Published REDLA research

Cocaine Use among High School Students in Six South American Countries by Marya Hynes, M.H.S., Hector Suarez Lic., Francisco Cumsille. Dr.Ph. Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatria, vol. 39, Suplemento 2010

Age at Onset of Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Problematic Alcohol and Psychoactive Substance Use in Adulthood in the General Population in Colombia by Augusto Pérez Gómez and Orlando Scoppetta Díaz-Granados. The Journal of International Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Research 2011, Vol. 1, No. 1, 19–24 (Full text)

Perception of Risk and Drug Use: An Exploratory Analysis of Explanatory Factors in Six Latin American Countries by Julio Bejarano, Graciela Ahumada, Gerardo Sanchez, Nora Cadenas, Maria de Marco, Marya Hynes and Francisco Cumsille. The Journal of International Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Research, 2011, Vol. 1, No. 1, 9–17 (Full text)

Volatile Substance Misuse Among High School Students in South America by Marya Hynes, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, Helena Maria Taunhauser Barros and Jorge Delva. Substance Use and Misuse, 46:27–34, 2011

The Sequence of Drug Use: Testing the Gateway Hypothesis in Latin by Eduardo Valenzuela and Matías Fernández. The Journal of International Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Research, 2011, Vol.1, No.1, 1-8 (Full text)