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City-level drug policies in Portugal: the Covid-19 pandemic as an analyzer of h...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic health crisis and its potential implications for people who use drugs (PWUD) created permissive conditions toward social innovation and experimentation. Still, it also exposed gaps in harm reduction approaches. Harm reduction responsiveness was informed by the priorities defined at the local level, so it was not applied uniformly in different regions. This paper intends to cont...

Regulating adult-use cannabis

The public debate on adult-use cannabis regulation is often driven by prejudice rather than scientific evidence. This policy paper maps clinical, social, economic, and legal literature on cannabis regulation to promote informed discussion and support evidence-based policy design.

Certificação Sexism Free Night: da visibilização do assédio sexual à criação de...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise sobre o assédio sexual em ambientes de lazer noturno a partir das perceções de bystanders (observadores/as) e da avaliação do processo de implementação da certificação Sexism Free Night no Porto. Através de um questionário online (N=546) foi possível verificar que, de acordo com os/as bystanders, o assédio sexual é muito prevalecente em ambientes de lazer noturno. Esses dados i...

Uma estratégia para todos os fenómenos da droga

A proposta para este contributo chega-me sob a forma de um convite a escrever, em moldes livres e num texto curto, sobre a mudança nos comportamentos aditivos em Portugal nos últimos anos, incluindo a possibilidade de apresentação de recomendações. Tomo-a como uma oportunidade para refletir em moldes amplos e aos quais faltará, certamente, o sustento robusto que o pedido merece, sobre a nossa estratégia...

Community-based full-spectrum harm reduction approaches when caring for psychoa...

Kosmicare Association is an NGO based in Portugal created in 2016 and born out of Boom Festival that works to transform nightlife culture through humanistic, comprehensive and evidence-based interventions and policies that capacitate nightlife governance and offer psychedelic harm reduction, outreach work, drug checking, information, training and good practice exchange. Helena Valente, Daniel Martins, Cristiana...

Protocolo de atuação para a prevenção e intervenção em casos de sexismo e violê...

Evaluation of a drug checking service at a large scale electronic music festiva...

Background: Drug checking services are being implemented in recreational settings across the world, however these projects are frequently accused of a lack of evidence concerning their impact on people who use drugs. This paper describes the implementation of a drug checking service at the Boom Festival 2016 and explores the impact of this service on its users’ behavioural intentions.Methods: 753 drug samples w...

Manual de recomendações para a publicidade não-sexista de bebidas alcoólicas

School dropout and girls' initiation ritual efundula - perspectives of a group ...

In the last few years, several studies have been dealing with the complex dynamic that, in sub-Saharan Africa, relates girls’ school dropout and ignition rituals. Scientific research often explores these elements by integrating the topic of early pregnancy/maternity into the discussions. However, the connection between those dimensions is not clear and more information is needed. As far as we know, in Angola th...

Psicologia da justiça e do comportamento desviante