Diseño de un sistema de vigilancia en salud pública de drogas emergentes Designing a system of public health surveillance of emerging drug Concepção de um sistema de vigilância da saúde pública de droga emergente

Emerging Drugs are defined as the emergence of new psychoactive substances in a given time, in a context and in a particular group, which usually arise first at low levels in specific locations or between population subgroups limited. A significant event is the appearance of the new drug or unknown and the resurgence of other already or believed to have lost their prevalence. The public health surveillance of emerging drug, has relevance in monitoring this event, this discipline to organize and describe the data collected and can be defined as the systematic and continuous process of emerging drug use, being able to provide a tool for proper decision-making which not only seeks to explain the prevalence of consumption, but also on the characteristics of consumers, use of forms and contexts where these are made, all in order to optimize financial, technical and human. This article describes a proposal for the operation of a surveillance system.