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A Theory of Natural Addiction [PDF]

, 2007
Economic theories of rational addiction aim to describe consumer behavior in the presence of habit-forming goods. We provide a biological foundation for this body of work by formally specifying conditions under which it is optimal to form a habit.
Ainslie, Atkinson, Attila Tasnádi, Baldwin, Baron-Cohen, Becker, Becker, Bergstrom, Blass, Blass, Blass, Bodnar, Booth, Brick, Camerer, Camerer, Campbell, Carson-DeWitt, Chiara, Cohen, Colantuoni, Cooper, Cooper, Cummings, Deth, Drewnowski, Dudley, Dum, Fantino, Fehr, Foster, Gilbertson, Gillberg, Gosnell, Griffiths, Grossman, Gruber, Gul, Harrigan, Headlee, Hirshleifer, Hirshleifer, Holtzman, Jaffe, Kahneman, Kalat, Kavaliers, Kavaliers, Killian, Laibson, Laibson, Leboyer, Leboyer, Loewenstein, Martin, McKim, Mello, Mercer, Morley, Mucha, Mucha, Nelson, Nesse, Nesse, Orphanides, Orphanides, Ostrowski, Parfitt, Pert, Pomerleau, Raiten, Raven, Robson, Rogers, Rudski, Samuelson, Sanger, Savage, Schuckit, Si, Simon, Simpkins, Smith, Sozou, Spanagel, Sullivan, Sullivan, ter Riet, Terenius, Trenton G. Smith, van Ree, van Ree, van Ree, Waeltl, Weeks, Weeks, Weiss, Williams, Yamamoto, Yeomans, Yeomans, Yeomans, Zigmond   +102 more
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Local News Deserts and Community Social Capital Erosion

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disappearance of local newspapers across the United States has sparked growing concern about its implications for community life in rural America. This study examines the societal consequences of local news deserts, focusing on three critical dimensions of community social capital: crime, civic engagement, and political polarization. Using
Tess Haddock, K. Aleks Schaefer, Brian E. Whitacre, Trey Malone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pattern and Inclination of Adolescents Towards Substance Abuse

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Shahīd Ṣadūqī Yazd, 2008
Introduction: Narcotic drug abuse and illicit use of drugs is a major, complicated multifactorial phenomenon affecting most of the societies today. Incidence of drug abuse among adolescents is very high.
H Mahjoob, S Bashirian, A Farhadinasab, H Allahverdipour   +3 more
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Positive Airway Pressure Therapy Initiation and Continued Benzodiazepine Use Among Chronic Drug Users

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been shown to improve concomitant insomnia symptoms, but whether treating OSA translates into reducing sedative medication use is unknown. We evaluated the association between initiating incident positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy and continued benzodiazepine drug receipt among chronic ...
Nicholas T. Vozoris, Jin Luo, Peter C. Austin, Clodagh M. Ryan   +3 more
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Planned Approach and Implementation of Pharmacology Teaching in the Bachelor's Veterinary Nursing Programme in Sweden

Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Veterinary Nurses play a key role in handling drugs and perform medication treatments, thus pharmacological knowledge is essential. The veterinary nurses' role varies widely worldwide but does not include the prescription of drugs. Nevertheless, pharmacology is a complex subject within veterinary nursing education and for the registered ...
Lena Olsén, Ann‐Christin Blomkvist
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The Effect of Drug Addiction on Education from University Students’ Point of View

Journal of Community Health Research, 2013
Introduction: Higher education system in each country is mainly responsible for training specialists and efficient personnels in different levels of government.
Mohammad Afkhami Aqda, Mahmood Kamali Zarch, Nadereh Shokorawa   +2 more
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Market Analysis of Synthetic Drugs: Amphetamine-type Stimulants, New Psychoactive Substances [PDF]

, 2017
An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...

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Bret/BRAT

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
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Comparing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to the Boggs Act of 1951 and the Narcotic Control Act of 1956 in levels of severity [PDF]

The Young Researcher, 2019
The first mandatory minimums for narcotics were the Boggs Act of 1951 and the Narcotic Control Act of 1956 created due to increasing drug abuse rates. In 1970 Congress repealed the laws stating that they were too harsh and ineffective.
Khadraoui, N.
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World situation with regard to drug abuse. Report of the Secretariat. [PDF]

, 2012
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Fifty-fifth session Vienna, 12-16 March 2012 Item 6 (a) of the provisional agenda* Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy ...

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