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The price elasticity of demand for illicit drugs: A systematic review
, 2020 Three pillars—harm reduction, demand reduction and supply reduction—underpin the harm minimisation framework of Australia’s drug policy. Much of the activity undertaken by law enforcement is aimed at reducing the availability of illicit drugs and thereby
Hien-Thuc, Pham +3 more
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, 2019 Background: Impurities in commonly used illicit drugs raise concerns for unwitting consumers when pharmacologically active adulterants, especially new psychoactive substances (NPS), are used.
Clough, Alan R +6 more
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Etiology of Drug Addiction Sociology
Research on Addiction, 2004 The phenomenon of illicit drugs is a physical fact with clear characteristics and objective effects which are measurable. However, its effects may or may not be compatible with observer's mental concept.
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Clinics 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.
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Seizures of illicit prescription drugs soaring.
, 2016 Seizures of benzodiazepines, a group of anti-anxiety medication, jumped 11-fold between 2013 and 2015, while seizures of so-called Z-drugs, a group of hypnotics, rose six-fold in the same time period......
O'Keeffe, Cormac
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Can production and trafficking of illicit drugs be reduced or merely shifted ? [PDF]
The production of cocaine and heroin, the two most important drugs economically, has been concentrated in a small number of poor nations for 25 years. A slightly larger number of developing nations have been affected by large-scale trafficking in these ...
Reuter, Peter
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Drugs and Growth-Efficient Prevention: An Inter-temporal Portfolio of Machos, Narcos and Angels [PDF]
In many countries substance abuse is a social epidemic. This paper deals conceptually with some macroeconomic aspects of widespread substance abuse with special reference to narcotic drugs.
Neri, Frank, Levy, Amnon
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A Review of Economic Behaviour of Drug Consumers
Research on Addiction, 2003 Illicit drug problem is one of the most worrying issues of the presenet century in all countries and anti-drug addiction programs are included in the agenda of all governments and international community. Drug abuse/addiction in Iran has been one of the
Shahrzad Borumand
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The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs [PDF]
This paper concentrates on both the positive and normative effects of punishments that enforce laws to make production and consumption of particular goods illegal, with illegal drugs as the main example.
Michael Grossman +2 more
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Substance use and epigenetic age acceleration: Associations with alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and SUD severity. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol DependFekete M, Mitchell C, Gibb J, Perry BL.
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