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Adjudication and Treatment of Narcotic Drug Offenders in Ghana

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health, 2023
Narcotic drug trafficking is a criminal and punishable offence in every country the world over. The use of certain narcotic drugs, on the other hand (especially marijuana), has been legalised in some countries, but under strict regulations.
Jacob Agboli
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Component analysis of illicit morphia tablets (clandestine laboratory preparation) using gas chromatography mass spectrometry: a case study

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2018
Background Various synthetic or semi-synthetic drugs like cocaine, amphetamine type stimulants (ATS), and heroin are produced and processed in clandestine laboratories. Every clan lab has its own procedures and protocols for drug synthesis and processing.
Muhammad Usman, Tahir Jamshaid, Abid Naseer, Yawar Baig, Zahid Mehmood, Muhammad Shahwar, Shahnaz Akhtar, Muhammad Taimoor Chaudhary, Muhammad Sarwar, Muhammad Ashraf Tahir   +9 more
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Forensic toxicological analysis of hair: a review

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2019
Analysis of hair provides useful information regarding drug addiction history or drug toxicity. Keeping in view some important applications of hair analysis, a lot of work done in the past few decades has been reviewed in this article. When compared with
Muhammad Usman, Abid Naseer, Yawar Baig, Tahir Jamshaid, Muhammad Shahwar, Shazia Khurshuid   +5 more
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The Role of Epigenetic Modifications in Neurotoxicity Induced by Neonatal General Anesthesia

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022
It has been widely demonstrated by numerous preclinical studies and clinical trials that the neonates receiving repeated or long-time general anesthesia (GA) could develop prolonged cognitive dysfunction.
Lin-Hui Ma, Lin-Hui Ma, Jing Yan, Jing Yan, Xin-Hao Jiao, Xin-Hao Jiao, Cheng-Hua Zhou, Yu-Qing Wu, Yu-Qing Wu   +8 more
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Association of Perioperative Opioid-Sparing Multimodal Analgesia With Narcotic Use and Pain Control After Head and Neck Free Flap Reconstruction.

JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2019
Importance An increase in narcotic prescription patterns has contributed to the current opioid epidemic in the United States. Opioid-sparing perioperative analgesia represents a means of mitigating the risk of opioid dependence while providing superior ...
M. Eggerstedt, K. Stenson, E. Ramirez, Hannah N. Kuhar, Danny B. Jandali, Deborah Vaughan, S. Al-Khudari, R. Smith, Peter C. Revenaugh   +8 more
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Diagnostic capabilities of self-reported psychoactive substance use among patients admitted to psychiatric consultations in Benin, West Africa

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background There is a high prevalence of psychoactive substance use among patients with mental health disorders. The optimal treatment of patients with mental health disorders requires an awareness of their history pertaining substance use.
Ahmat K. Abdelhakim, Assad Bio-Sya, Georgia Barikissou Damien, Elvyre T. E. Klikpo, G. M. Gansou, Aurel C. Allabi   +5 more
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Preoperative Multimodal Analgesia Decreases Postanesthesia Care Unit Narcotic Use and Pain Scores in Outpatient Breast Surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2018
Background: The opioid epidemic demands changes in perioperative pain management. Of the 33,000 deaths attributable to opioid overdose in 2015, half received prescription opioids.
Jenny C. Barker, Kaitlin K DiBartola, Corinne E. Wee, N. Andonian, M. Abdel-Rasoul, Deborah S. Lowery, J. Janis   +6 more
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Whose Tweets are Surveilled for the Police: An Audit of Social-Media Monitoring Tool via Log Files [PDF]

, 2020
Social media monitoring by law enforcement is becoming commonplace, but little is known about what software packages for it do. Through public records requests, we obtained log files from the Corvallis (Oregon) Police Department's use of social media monitoring software called DigitalStakeout. These log files include the results of proprietary searches
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Forensic Analysis of Fatal Heroin Overdose in Pakistan: Examination of Seized Materials and Postmortem Blood Sample [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology
Introduction: The concentration of heroin in street drugs is highly uncertain. This uncertainty of drug purity is the major cause of overdose. If it is used with a combination of other drugs, it can be fatal.
Muhammad Usman, Yawar Baig, Abid Naseer
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Health Facility Licensing Dispute

Unnes Law Journal, 2020
Clinic is a health service facility that organizes individual health services that provide basic and/or specialist medical services. Primary Clinic (Klinik Pratama) is a Clinic that organizes basic medical services both general and specific. To establish
Delfina Gusman, Marryo Borry
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