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Injecting heroin is a decreasing practice in the young population, following the HIV epidemic and changes in young culture, replaced by other legal and illegal psicoattive substances. However, heroin has not disappeared. It is present in situations of social exclusion, in marginalized groups (psychiatric patients; immigrates) and also in well-integrated young population, through new patterns of consumption in the contest of poly-drug use. Grosso suggests an empowerment of the harm reduction strategies through the three plans: early warning system, consumption rooms and medical prescription of heroin. All that should be supported by the integration between social and health system and by coherent political choices and decisions (i.e. not considering the consumption of illicit drugs as a penal offence).

A distanza di tre decenni dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino, il volume tenta un bilancio sulla transizione alla democrazia negli ordinamenti già socialisti dell’Europa centro-orientale, focalizzandosi sullo sviluppo imprevisto di due Paesi, la Polonia e l’Ungheria, in quello che pare un regresso rispetto ad alcune iniziali acquisizioni democratiche. Due Stati che rischiano di formare il paradigma di un sistema nuovo, un ibrido tra democrazia e regime illiberale, non totalitario e forse neanche compiutamente autoritario, ma con molti tratti riconoscibili sotto questo aspetto.

Il volume presenta la metodologia APAModel, che offre a imprenditori, manager e formatori efficaci strumenti per interpretare e gestire i grandi mutamenti che stanno interessando il mondo delle organizzazioni. Si tratta di un innovativo approccio formativo al cambiamento, finalizzato a sviluppare la naturale plasticità e propensione all’adattamento di ogni essere umano, individuando e superando contemporaneamente le altrettanto naturali resistenze al cambiamento.

Since 2006 the conversion of vineyards to organic or biodynamic vineyards has been accelerating in France, and the annual rate of conversion varies between 20- 25% per year, attaining the total surface of 61.055 ha of bio vineyards in 2011. This growth is even more striking in the light of the shrinking total surface of vineyards and the decreasing trend of wine consumption in France. In this challenging context, we attempt to analyze which of the classic wine distribution channels are conducive to French bio wine producers. The study is grounded in a series of interviews in several regions of France on a variety of distribution practices employed by natural wine producers. The research methodology employs content analysis and cognitive mapping technique. While the bio wine distribution system appears to be diversified and mobilizes all the classic channels, direct sales and export appear to be of particular relevance. Our findings confirm the impact of extra production costs (from 15 to 30%) on the choice of an appropriate channel. This extra production cost, explained mainly by higher labor costs and partly justified by the higher quality of wines, typically results in higher prices which the final consumer must pay. In this case direct sales could be seen the most remunerative as a producer’s margins are not squeezed in intermediate transactions. A closer relation between a producer and a consumer also adds value to the product: consumers perceive bio wine primarily as a wine, a cultural product which witnesses the diversity of terroirs. The presented analysis of bio wines distribution channels will allow practitioners to better adjust their distribution strategies.