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Constructing Drug Using Victims: Race and Class in Policy Debates on Ecstasy Use in the U.S. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Sociologists and political scientists examining the social construction of public anxiety surrounding drug use in the United States have argued that racial minorities are the targets of the harshest drug laws, while middle-class whites are shielded.
Laguna, Sofia Isabel
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Australian threshold quantities for ‘drug trafficking’: are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study uses data on patterns of drug user consumption and purchasing to evaluate Australian legal threshold quantities to see whether Australian drug users are at risk of exceeding the thresholds for personal use alone.
Alison Ritter   +3 more
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Harm reduction behaviours and harm experiences of people who use 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal
Background 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is drug of high prevalence in Aotearoa New Zealand and is the primary drug analysed by legal drug checking services.
Jai Whelan, Geoff Noller, Ryan D. Ward
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of curcumin on biochemical and hematological indices of red blood cells during and after taking ecstasy in male Wistar rats

open access: yesFiyz̤, 2018
Background: The using of ecstasy pills or 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has severe damage to various systems of the body, including blood cells.
Naser Khalaji   +2 more
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Ecstasy-Induced Caspase Expression Alters Following Ginger Treatment

open access: yesBasic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2013
Introduction: Exposure to 3-4, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) leads to cell death. Herein, we studied the protective effects of ginger on MDMA- induced apoptosis.
Sara Soleimani Asl   +5 more
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The challenge of synthetic drugs in East and South-East Asia and Oceania [PDF]

open access: yes
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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