[Drug use and crime: the data from Buenos Aires province, Argentina]

The data of the epidemiologic soundings performed by the Undersecretary's Addictions Attention Office of the Ministry of Health at the Province of Buenos Aires were examined. Consumption of marijuana, cocaine and base paste have associations with behaviors of risk also associated to violence and delinquency. Drug and robbery were connected with the usual consumers of marijuana in 53.4%, of those of cocaine in 42.7% and in 26.9% of those consumers of base paste. High social permissiveness towards alcohol abuse that reaches more than half of the adolescents, as well as the impact in the emergency ward related to the use of substances and violence, were considered as risk factors.