Harms and benefits associated with psychoactive drugs: findings of an international survey of active drug users. [PDF]
There have been several recent efforts in the UK and the Netherlands to describe the harms of psychoactive substances based on ratings of either experts or drug users.
Noronha, LA +4 more
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Influence of parental smoking on the use of alcohol and illicit drugs among adolescents
Objective: To evaluate the association between parental smoking and the use of alcohol and illicit drugs among adolescent children. Methods: A cross-sectional study with 6,264 adolescents (59.7% female) aged between 14 and 19 years.
Luciano Machado Ferreira Tenório de Oliveira +5 more
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El Diálogo entre la Comunidad Andina y la Unión Europea sobre drogas ilícitas
Colombian relations with European Union on the issue of illicit drugs are mediated by the « Diálogo Especializado de Alto Nivel entre la Unión Europea y la Comunidad Andina sobre drogas », of which Colombia currently occupies the vice presidency.
Giovanni Molano Cruz.
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Networks and meta-regulation: strategies aimed at governing illicit synthetic drugs
New regulatory state scholarship has documented the rise of pluralized forms of governance that lay beyond central states. This has resulted in regulation being constituted by dense networks of actors and institutions.
Grabosky, Peter +5 more
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Innovative solutions for enhanced illicit drugs profiling using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and mass spectrometry technologies [PDF]
This project aimed to determine whether comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography is suitable for routine use in a forensic laboratory for profiling illicit substances.
Philip Marriot, Blagoj Mitrevski
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Alcohol and other drug treatment and diversion from the Australian criminal justice system: 2012-13 [PDF]
Nationally, there were 24,069 clients who had been diverted into alcohol and other drug treatment, comprising 24% of all clients, according to this report.
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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 +2 more
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Illicit drugs and their metabolites in 36 rivers that drain into the Bohai Sea and north Yellow Sea, north China [PDF]
Illicit drugs and their metabolites have recently been recognized as an emerging group of contaminants due to their potential ecotoxicological impact in aquatic ecosystems.
Wang, Z +15 more
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THE EFFECT OF ILLICIT TRADE IN NARCOTICS ON GLOBAL ECONOMY [PDF]
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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ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL- AND ILLICIT DRUG-USE IN FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS IN SWEDEN [PDF]
In this paper adolescent alcohol- and illicit drug-use among 1st and 2nd generation immigrants from Nordic, non-Nordic European and non-European countries were compared with the Swedish majority population.
Svensson, Mikael, Hagquist, Curt
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