Family Characterization of Young Experimental Consumers of Psychoactive Substances Seen in the Toxicology Department at Colsubsidio

This investigation characterized families of adolescents experimenting with psychoactive substances (PAS) consumption. Materials and methods: For this purpose, a qualitative study with a hermeneutical emphasis was conducted among a population of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 who have experimented with PAS. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients and their families employing a flexible protocol of 14 categories. Results: The findings showed low levels of family cohesion and sense of family identity, inconsistency between educational patterns followed by the parents, as well as deficient parental support. Similarly, the findings indicate significant peer influence during the first stages of consumption of illegal substances. In this regard, the findings suggest that more than providing physical satisfaction, consumption represents a form of acquiring prestige and social position while granting a sensation of psychological, emotional and social well-being. Conclusions: Parental influence was also found considerable in regarding the consumption of legal PAS, like alcohol and tobacco. The study identified as a high-priority need to promote and incorporate communication and conflict resolution skills within the family dynamics by means of prevention and monitoring programs. Those skills and programs would be aimed at providing parents of adolescents experimenting with PAS consumption with new educational tools to orientate new raising guidelines so as to respond appropriately to the problems identified in this study.

Informal access to urban land. Housing policies devoted to vulnerable sectors implemented in Cordoba-Argentina

The urban growth in Latino American cities, in a neoliberal context, has led to several population groups to having no possibilities to the access to urban land. Informal and irregular urban settlements increase, requiring attention from local governments, with actions and strategies in order to achieve both the regularization of such situation and further prevention. In the city of Córdoba different informal and irregular operations have taken place promoted by different actors. Furthermore, policies focused on regularization which have been promoted, have few intervention mechanisms, a fact that becomes critical, especially for the urban problems it causes. The main aim of this article is to present a classification over different modes of urban land acquirement taking place out of both urban and civil legislations. Afterwards, different informal settlement typologies are described, as well as the policies focused on them, together with their respective effects and impacts.

El desequilibrio procesal y probatorio del “opositor víctima o sujeto vulnerable” en el proceso de restitución de tierras

El presente trabajo se enmarca en la Ley de Víctimas, Ley 1448 del año 2011, y aborda específicamente los casos en que se presenta oposición de una víctima o bien de un sujeto vulnerable, de especial protección, frente a la reclamación de restitución de un predio por una víctima. No aborda la generalidad de los casos de oposición. Habiendo delimitado el objeto de estudio que atañe, es necesario señalar que el presente trabajo, se centra en indagar la posición procesal y las capacidades probatorias del opositor víctima o sujeto vulnerable en este tipo de procesos bajo las circunstancias ya enunciadas, para entrar a estudiar si, a este sujeto procesal se le respeta o se le viola su derecho a la igualdad de parte dentro del proceso de restitución de tierras y qué alternativas pueden establecerse para hacer del acto de oponerse un acto más garantista.