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The Formation and Development of Illicit Performance and Image Enhancing Drug Markets: Exploring Supply and Demand, and Control Policies in Belgium and the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This research explores the understudied phenomenon of performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) markets by examining the structure and formation of the market for PIEDs in the Netherlands and Belgium.
van de Ven, K., van de Ven, Katinka
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Sensors for the Detection of Illicit Drugs

open access: yes, 2020
Illicit drugs represent the most criminal cases that are examined by the forensic laboratories. They are of wide variety and they range from synthetic to naturally occurring and can have various types of psychoactive effects.
Gaurav Pandey   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Nanoelectronic Detection of Opioids: Machine Learning‐Powered Screening With Carbon Nanotube Field‐Effect Transistor Sensor Array

open access: yesSmall, EarlyView.
A carbon nanotube field‐effect transistor (NTFET) sensor array is constructed to screen different opioids with machine learning models. Codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, and morphine are tested using the NTFET sensor array and classified with both conventional supervised learning models and deep learning models.
Zhengru Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revenue seizures of illicit drugs surge in first half of year.

open access: yes, 2020
Data obtained by The Irish Times shows illicit drugs valued at €20 million – including cannabis herb and resin, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and ecstasy – were seized in the first half of this year compared to €23.6 million in all of last ...
Lally, Conor
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Policing alcohol and illicit drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in metropolitan environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Executive summary: This report presents the results of Australian Institute of Criminology research on issues and challenges of policing alcohol and illicit drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in metropolitan environments.
David Marks, Jason Payne, Tracy Cussen
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Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
wiley   +1 more source

Illicit Drugs and Insurgency in Afghanistan

open access: yesPerspectives on Terrorism, 2012
It is argued that the relationship between illicit drugs and the insurgency in Afghanistan cannot be captured by the simplistic concept of “narco-terrorism”.
Ekaterina Stepanova
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Illicit Tobacco: Policy Responses, Consumption and Attitudes

open access: yes, 2015
The existence of the illicit tobacco trade has serious implications for tobacco control efforts as it encourages smoking by providing tobacco products at a cheaper price. Although this illicit trade has serious ramifications for public health in England,
Iringe-Koko, IB
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Revisiting the Association of Pesticide Exposure and Parkinson's Disease: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The association between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD) is substantial, but heterogeneity in methodology and lack of categorization according to the type of exposure and pesticide classes in previous meta‐analyses impair the interpretation of data. This study aims to update evidence of the association between pesticide exposure
Pedro Henrique Passos da Silva   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

HIV IN ILLICIT DRUG USERS

open access: yesClinics in Chest Medicine, 1996
Illicit drug users comprise a substantial and growing proportion of the HIV-infected population. Although they develop pulmonary complications common to all HIV transmission groups, they also have unique respiratory illnesses due to the direct effect of the illicit drugs on the lung.
openaire   +2 more sources

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