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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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Den gode fiende, eller den gode pasient?

open access: yesNordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2017
This article is inspired by my master thesis in criminology. My thesis examined the war on drugs, its influence on the role of the police, and the way in which the police themselves interpret the war on drugs.
Thomas Hauge
doaj   +1 more source

Globalization and the Price Decline of Illicit Drugs [PDF]

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Retail prices of major drugs like cocaine and heroin have declined dramatically during the last two decades. This price decline has tended to offset the effects of drug policies aimed at reducing drug use in major industrial countries.
Cláudia Costa Storti, Paul De Grauwe
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Sequelae of child maltreatment: Umbrella synthesis of 148 meta‐analyses on the mental health correlates

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Our umbrella synthesis found strong, often equivalent, associations between child maltreatment and all examined mental health difficulties. Different types of maltreatment appear to have comparably negative effects on mental health. If replicated, these findings may cause us to reconsider conventional wisdom that suggests some forms of CM are less ...
Barry Coughlan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Things We Do for No Reason™: Withholding opioids among patients with acute pain and opioid use disorder

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Hospitalists care for patients with acute pain who have an opioid use disorder and require pain management. Hospitalists may withhold opioids for acute pain due to a variety of reasons. However, adequate pain management in patients with opioid use disorder, including with opioids, is the standard of care. This piece explains how to best manage
Anna‐Maria South   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The challenge of synthetic drugs in East and South-East Asia and Oceania [PDF]

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The demand for synthetic drugs in East and Southeast Asia and Oceania continues to rise, while rapid economic integration is creating new opportunities for transnational criminal groups to expand the illicit drug trade, warns the United Nations Office on
Justice Tettey
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I Can't Split Myself in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent Work Environments

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employees in highly demanding, interdependent work environments face a dilemma: while avoidance‐focused job crafting can preserve their own well‐being, these self‐initiated changes to their jobs could negatively affect coworkers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 81 employees concurrently working for multiple agile teams in a European ...
Helene Tenzer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Investors React to Supplier Exploitation? Event Study and Experimental Evidence

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supplier exploitation, including financial squeezing, payment delays, and non‐contractual demands, is a pervasive form of corporate misconduct. This multi‐method study examines how investors interpret supplier exploitation amid competing ethical and financial considerations.
Seongtae Kim, Sangho Chae, Han Kyul Oh
wiley   +1 more source

The use of wastewater analysis in forensic intelligence: drug consumption comparison between Sydney and different European cities

open access: yesForensic Sciences Research, 2019
Wastewater analysis offers objective and complementary information to illicit drug agencies by monitoring patterns of illicit drug consumption. In this study, wastewater samples from three different wastewater treatment plants in Sydney, Australia were ...
Anne Bannwarth   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cold EI—The Way to Improve GC‐MS and Increase Its Range of Applications

open access: yesMass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry (GC‐MS) with Cold electron ionization (EI) is based on interfacing the GC and MS with a supersonic molecular beam (SMB) along with electron ionization of vibrationally cold sample compounds in the SMB in a contact‐free fly‐through ion source (hence the name Cold EI).
Aviv Amirav   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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