What can we learn from the Portuguese decriminalization of illicit drugs? [PDF]
, 2010 The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decriminalized the use and possession of all illicit drugs on 1 July 2001.
A. Stevens +3 more
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Have recent evolutions in European governance brought harmonisation in the field of illicit drugs any closer? [PDF]
, 2010 With the long awaited ratification of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009, it appears that plans within Europe to achieve an ‘ever closer union’ are back on track, yet, in the field of illicit drug policy, harmonisation remains as elusive a goal as ...
Chatwin, Caroline, Caroline Chatwin
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Psychostimulant-related health service demand in an inner-city hospital, 2012–2015
Public Health Research & Practice, 2018 Objective: To analyse routinely collected data from a hospital database of drug health consultation-liaison (CL) assessments. We aimed to investigate changes in psychostimulant-related health service demand in an inner-city hospital to inform the ...
Alon Faingold +4 more
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The entities providing administrative combating illicit trafficking of synthetic drugs
Теорія і практика правознавства, 2016 The article deals with the powers of the entities providing administrative tools to combat illicit trafficking of synthetic drugs and psychotropic substances.
Б. А. Підгорний
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The Layout of the Statistical Forecasts Regarding the Fight Against of the Chaos’s Vectors from the Space Geometry of the Illegal Drugs [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2023 The people’s life is actually in jeopardy due to the illicit drugs, because these influence variously the brain functions, heart or other organs. The persons who take illicit drugs can fall ill them mental state and thus they can manifest a whole range ...
Gabriela OPAIT
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EXPERIMENTATION AND REGULAR USE OF ILLICIT DRUGS BY STUDENTS IN THE CITY OF BRAGANÇA, NORTHEASTERN PARÁ. [PDF]
Revista Gestão & Saúde, 2013 This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with illicit drug useamongstudents inhighschools in the municipality of Bragança, Pará, northern Brazil.
Clemenes Prata Araújo +5 more
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Delta-8-THC acetate-a prodrug of delta-8-THC?: A case report
Forensic Science International: ReportsThis case report describes the concurrent analysis of a seized plant material and a urine sample. The seized plant material was found to contain delta-8-THC acetate, a prodrug of delta-8-THC, as a major component.
Jonathan Wong +5 more
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AIDS Research and Therapy, 2020 Background To explore the use of illicit drugs by people living with HIV (PLHIV) taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) and their relationship with variables relevant to the management of HIV infection, such as knowledge and beliefs about drug–drug ...
María José Fuster-RuizdeApodaca +5 more
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A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs [PDF]
, 2012 In this Harm Reduction Digest two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding success’ or a ‘disastrous failure’.
Stevens, Alex, Hughes, Caitlin Elizabeth
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Chaos Unleashed: The impact of recreational drugs and COVID on young adults
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction This case series reveals a number of young adults, whom after chronic use of recreational drugs, suffer the life-long consequence of severe chronic mental illness.
A. Makela, M. Howard
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