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Ten Years of International Collaboration to Address the Challenge of New Psychoactive Substances
Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and HealthOver the last ten years, the number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) reported to UNODC has increased significantly to over 1,200 individual substances, reported by 141 countries and territories worldwide.
J. Tettey, S. Levissianos
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2019 In August 2015, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) initiated a CODIS-Based Sexual Assault Evidence Testing Initiative, hereto referred to as the Initiative, as a direct result of the ongoing national inquiry about the number of untested sexual
Cecelia A. Crouse +5 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison +5 more
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Harm Reduction JournalBackground The sale and advertisement of illicit drugs on social media is a rapidly evolving landscape. While existing research has focused on market structures, purchase strategies, and platform types, there is limited understanding of how viewing such ...
Ashly Fuller +3 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps
Crime Science, 2018 Pump-and-dump schemes are fraudulent price manipulations through the spread of misinformation and have been around in economic settings since at least the 1700s.
Josh Kamps, Bennett Kleinberg
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