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Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs among Medical Students and the Relationship With Illicit Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol Use

Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2018
Nonmedical use of prescription medications is a growing health problem including not only the opioid painkiller overdose epidemic but also benzodiazepine and stimulants misuse.
Georgios Papazisis, Ioannis Tsakiridis, Spyridon Siafis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profiles of drug users in Switzerland and effects of early-onset intensive use of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis on other illicit drug use

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2013
QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY / PRINCIPLES: The main aim of this study was to investigate profiles of drug users, with a particular focus on illicit drugs other than cannabis, and to explore the effect of early-onset intensive use (drunkenness, daily ...
Stéphanie Baggio, Joseph Studer, Meichun Mohler-Kuo, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Gerhard Gmel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enantioselective Determination of Amphetamine‐Type Stimulants in Environmental Waters Using SPE and CE–MS/MS

ELECTROPHORESIS, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing concern over drug abuse, particularly involving amphetamine‐type substances (ATS), has led to their monitoring in environmental waters. These chiral compounds, commonly found in river water and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents, require analytical methods capable of enantiomeric discrimination, as their enantiomers can ...
Pol Clivillé‐Cabré, Francesc Borrull, Carme Aguilar, Marta Calull   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Denial of pain medication by health care providers predicts in-hospital illicit drug use among individuals who use illicit drugs

Pain Research and Management, 2015
People who use illicit drugs are at risk for related health complications, and may rely more heavily on emergency departments and acute care centres for their health care needs.
L. Ti, P. Voon, S. Dobrer, J. Montaner, E. Wood, T. Kerr   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Incidence and prehospital management of convulsive status epilepticus in Martinique, a French Caribbean territory

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Status epilepticus (SE) is an acute complication that can either occur in the course of epilepsy, or reflect an acute neurological or systemic disorder. SE incidence and associated mortality vary across regions and studied populations.
Florian Negrello, Alexis Fremery, Jonathan Florentin, Sylvie Merle, Vianney Aquilina, Yannick Brouste, Dabor Resiere, Rishika Banydeen, Papa Gueye   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE EFFECT OF ILLICIT TRADE IN NARCOTICS ON GLOBAL ECONOMY [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2013
Illicit markets especially those dealing with narcotics constitute grievous issues to the world’s economies, putting to test global safety, economic progress as well as security and many other aspects.
ALASMARI Khaled
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Globalization and the Price Decline of Illicit Drugs [PDF]

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
core  

Non-destructive terahertz imaging of illicit drugs using spectral fingerprints.

Optics Express, 2003
The absence of non-destructive inspection techniques for illicit drugs hidden in mail envelopes has resulted in such drugs being smuggled across international borders freely.
K. Kawase, Y. Ogawa, Y. Watanabe, H. Inoue   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gout in pregnancy: Obstetric and neonatal outcomes

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 169, Issue 1, Page 349-355, April 2025.
Abstract Objective The pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by gout have yet to be evaluated in a population‐based study. We sought to evaluate the obstetric and neonatal outcomes in pregnant patients with gout using a national population database.
Sam Amar, Ahmad Badeghiesh, Haitham Baghlaf, Michael H. Dahan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illicit Drugs and Insurgency in Afghanistan

Perspectives 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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