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Comparing Drug Users with Non-Users
NASSP Bulletin, 1973This article reports a study comparing students who had experienced the illicit use of drugs with students who indicated complete abstinence. The study attempted to ascertain the values, attitudes, feelings, knowledge, and personal practices held by students that may have impli cations for parents, school personnel, and community leaders.
Marvin Edward Binkley +1 more
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Users: Service Users and the Drug User Movement
2010In April 2006 a group of illegal drug user activists from around the world met at the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Vancouver, Canada. Together they produced a ‘statement about the international network of people who use drugs’, a document that is, in effect, an international declaration of drug users’ rights ...
Alex Mold, Virginia Berridge
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Servicing the Drug User and the Drug User Treatment Support System
International Journal of the Addictions, 1981Using a sample of male and female Israeli street polydrug users who were involved with a broad service support system, this paper analyzes and discusses the implications of meeting their multiple needs when delivery of care is the responsibility of specialized drug user treatment agencies.
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Drugs & Society, 1986
A major void in psychological research is a more precise understanding of who are the drug users. This void has occurred becuase psychological research has failed to distinguish between the behavior of drug abuse and the psychological characteristics of drug abuseres.
Franklin C. Shontz, James V. Spotts
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A major void in psychological research is a more precise understanding of who are the drug users. This void has occurred becuase psychological research has failed to distinguish between the behavior of drug abuse and the psychological characteristics of drug abuseres.
Franklin C. Shontz, James V. Spotts
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Estimation of drug users and injecting drug users in Malaysia
2005Malaysia treats the problem of drug addiction as a security issue. Since it was identified in the early 70s, the number of drug addicts is constantly on the rise. At present, the government provides all statistics pertaining to the number of drug users, abusers and addicts in the country.The monograph contains the full report that was submitted to the ...
Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar +3 more
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The Classification of Drug Users [PDF]
Journal of Drug Issues, 1976 This paper outlines a possible approach for decreasing the harmful personal and social consequences of legal and illegal drug misuse and abuse. It is suggested that the role of rehabilitation and treatment should not be abstinence or even, necessarily, the reduction of drug use.
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Bacterial Infections in Drug Users
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005There are an estimated 13 million injection-drug users worldwide, and infections are among the most serious complications of drug use. This article reviews the common problems associated with drug use, including skin and soft-tissue infections, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and endovascular infections.
Franklin D. Lowy, Rachel J. Gordon
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1992
In this chapter I will assess whether criminal laws against the recreational use of drugs (LAD) are justifiable on paternalistic grounds. In other words, I will evaluate attempts to defend or reject LAD solely because of the harm drugs cause to adult users themselves, quite apart from the harm they cause to nonusers.
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In this chapter I will assess whether criminal laws against the recreational use of drugs (LAD) are justifiable on paternalistic grounds. In other words, I will evaluate attempts to defend or reject LAD solely because of the harm drugs cause to adult users themselves, quite apart from the harm they cause to nonusers.
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1991
The Federal Republic of Germany can be considered as the gateway for the narcotic trade due to its central location in Western Europe. The amount of narcotics seized in the last few years has reached alarming levels.1 The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) has initiated several research projects dealing with drug-related crime.2 Their findings should be used to ...
A. Kreuzer +2 more
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The Federal Republic of Germany can be considered as the gateway for the narcotic trade due to its central location in Western Europe. The amount of narcotics seized in the last few years has reached alarming levels.1 The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) has initiated several research projects dealing with drug-related crime.2 Their findings should be used to ...
A. Kreuzer +2 more
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Persistent Dyskinesias in Drug Users
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1972ABSTRACT To the Editor.— In this report we document persistent dyskinesias in adolescents who are members of the drug subculture in the United States and who take medications not by prescription and not therapeutically, but for behavioral and emotionally modifying responses.After the use of the phenothiazines became widespread, the attention of ...
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