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The opium wars, opium legalization and opium consumption in China [PDF]

Applied Economics Letters, 2013
The effect of drug prohibition on drug consumption is a critical issue in debates over drug policy. One episode that provides information on the consumption-reducing efffect of drug prohibition is the Chinese legalization of opium in 1858.
Feige, Chris, Miron, Jeffrey, Jeffrey Miron, Chris Feige   +3 more
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Opium

The New England Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Collateral Branches of Science
This chapter discusses the drug opium in the Romantic period. It covers the use of opium by Romantic period writers, such as Thomas De Quincey and S. T. Coleridge and the production and consumption of opium in a British and global context.
Kitson, Peter
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The Opium Question [PDF]

BMJ, 1892
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Farquharson, Robert, Pringle, Robert
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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares, Eriola Jakoel, Ron Be’eri, Oded Lipschits, Ronny Neumann, Yuval Gadot   +5 more
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The Prevalence of Substance Use Among Students and Associated Factors: A Systematic Review With Narrative Synthesis [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Substance use is a major public health and social problem that affects individuals of all ages, particularly adolescents and young adults, across every society. School as an educational environment can be suitable for education and orientation towards substances.
Bazleh N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Incident cancers attributable to using opium and smoking cigarettes in the Golestan cohort studyResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: Opium consumption has recently been identified as a carcinogen, but the impact of opium use on cancer burden is unknown. We aimed to evaluate the fraction of cancers that could be attributed to opium use alone and in combination ...
Karine Alcala, Hossein Poustchi, Vivian Viallon, Farhad Islami, Akram Pourshams, Alireza Sadjadi, Saeed Nemati, Masoud Khoshnia, Abdolsamad Gharavi, Gholamreza Roshandel, Maryam Hashemian, Sanford M. Dawsey, Christian C. Abnet, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, Kazem Zendehdel, Farin Kamangar, Reza Malekzadeh, Mahdi Sheikh   +18 more
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The Impact of OPIUM and Its Derivatives on Cell Apoptosis and Angiogenesis

Translational Research in Urology, 2020
Opium is an opiate substance with a significant effect on human physiology and behavior. Ancient priests used opium as a powerful healing drug and many medical texts have referred to opium as medication, especially during the nineteenth century.
Akram Mirzaei, Kazem Zendehdel, Hamideh Rashidian , Maryam Aghaii , Seyyed Mohammad Ghahestani, Hassan Roudgari   +5 more
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OPIUM IN INFLUENZA. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1894
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Britain's Third Opium War

, 2022
I know NATO was complicit in the Afghan opium trade because I was there, guarding opium harvesting on Afghan government land besides NATO’s main operating base in Helmand.
Anthony C Heaford
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A crossdisciplinary project on opium poppy

, 2023
The project aims to define a chrono-cultural framework for the early domestication of the Opium Poppy and its dispersal from Prehistory to the end of the Iron Age (6000-50 cal BC) in Europe and Southwest Asia.
Aurélie Salavert
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