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Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only allowed access to nicotine vapes for medical use.
Ron Borland +4 more
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Ecstasy from a physiological point of view
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1982 The biological study of man is one of today's most rapidly advancing sciences. There is no reason for not utilizing these methodologies of research and the knowledge already gained when studying ecstasy and other similar religious phenomena.
Kaj Björkqvist
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aim Stimulating the use of alcohol‐free beverages is portrayed as one strategy to reduce excessive alcohol use and alcohol‐related harm among students in higher education. This strategy relies on the assumption that students drink alcohol‐free to substitute alcohol (i.e.
Kirsten J. M. van Hooijdonk +3 more
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Decriminalization of personal possession of select illegal drugs was implemented in British Columbia, Canada, for a three‐year period starting 31 January 2023; however, following perceived increases in public drug use and disorder, an amendment introduced on 7 May 2024 rolled back key provisions.
Jürgen Rehm +5 more
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2014 This study aimed to analyze whether ecstasy consumption is associated with the socioeconomic status in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, from 2000 to 2007.
Silvio Fernandes Lapachinske +1 more
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Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology & Research, 2013 Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) is a naturally occurring analog of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) that has been used in research and clinical medicine for many years.
Prakhar Kapoor +2 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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TerraTinker: Crafting Playful Geospatial Visualizations
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract With the onset of digital technologies, conveying information to the young generation is becoming evermore challenging, forcing us to explore alternative methods, such as using video games. A typical area that could benefit from innovation is geography, where we want to convey the relationship between selected geographical locations and ...
J. Rosecký +3 more
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