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Crack cocaine use and its relationship with violence and HIV
Clinics, 2009 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate crack cocaine use practices, risk behaviors associated with HIV infection among drug users, and their involvement with violence. INTRODUCTION: HIV infections are frequent among drug users due to risky sexual behavior.
Heraclito Barbosa de Carvalho +1 more
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Justice Reform: Who\u27s Got the Power [PDF]
, 2015 As the US prison population continues to rise despite the significant decrease in crime rates, scholars and social activists are demanding comprehensive reforms to the penal system that disproportionately affects minorities and the poor and has become a ...
Mayba, Yevgeniy
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Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition and the Weakness of Public Policy [PDF]
, 1994 The case against prohibition is overwhelming precisely because so many different types of considerations all point to a single solution: the legalization of illicit drugs.
Barnett, Randy E
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Unrecognized ???Crack??? Cocaine Abuse in Pregnancy
Survey of Anesthesiology, 1996 We report a case of "crack" cocaine abuse in a pregnant patient associated with haematuria, proteinuria, haemolytic anaemia, renal impairment, thrombocytopenia and pulmonary oedema. The case illustrates the problems for clinicians where unrecognized cocaine abuse interferes with the diagnosis and management of a complicated pregnancy.
D, Campbell, M J, Parr, L E, Shutt
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Background: Non-invasive brain stimulation such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been investigated as additional therapeutic tool for drug use disorder.
Jaisa Klauss +7 more
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Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem, 2011 Este estudo buscou avaliar a utilização da Intervenção Breve Motivacional (IBM) em um serviço de aconselhamento telefônico, oferecida aos jovens no processo de cessação do consumo de crack. Foi realizado um estudo descritivo, a partir do levantamento dos
Nadia Krubskaya Bisch +6 more
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, 2016 The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years.
Bjerk, David J.
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Downward Mobility From the Middle Class: Waking Up From the American Dream [PDF]
, 2011 Examines trends in Americans falling out of the middle class, ranking 20 or more percentiles below their parents, or earning 20 percent or more below their parents' real income, and contributing factors across race/ethnicity and ...
Gregory Acs
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Levamisole tainted cocaine causing severe neutropenia in Alberta and British Columbia
Harm Reduction Journal, 2009 Background Five cases of severe neutropenia (neutrophil counts < 0.5 per 109 cells/L) associated with exposure to cocaine and levamisole, an antihelimithic agent no longer available in Canada, were identified in Alberta in 2008.
Fan Shihe +7 more
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