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Potential Effect of Opium Consumption on Controlling Diabetes and Some Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Diabetic Patients [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2013 Background: Due to this belief that opium may have beneficial effects on diabetes or cardiovascular risk factors, the present study aimed to assess the potential and possible effects of opium consumption on diabetes control and some cardiovascular risk ...
Najmeh Rahimi +4 more
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Responding to Afghanistan's Opium economy challenge : lessons and policy implications from a development perspective [PDF]
Opium, Afghanistan's leading economic activity, lies at the heart of the challenges the country faces in state building, governance, security, and development.
Byrd, William A.
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Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
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Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India [PDF]
Trade and export, it is argued, spur economic growth. This paper studies the microeconomics of exporting. We build a heuristic model of transactions between exporters and producers and relate it to East India Company operations in colonial Bengal.
Anand V. Swamy, Rachel E. Kranton
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Lipid Profile Comparison between Opium Addicts and Non-Addicts [PDF]
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2008 Background: This study was done to test the notion that opium can reduce serum lipids and decrease the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in opium addicts; we made a comparison between the lipid profiles of opium addicts and non-addicts. Methods: In
Seyedeh Seddigheh Fatemi +3 more
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Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2014 Background: Opium dependence is one of the most challenging health problems in the developing countries as well as Iran. Among several health problems due to opium dependence, there are limited reports indicating the presence of lead in opium. The aim of
Behrooz Hashemi Domeneh +2 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology, 2019 Drug abuse remains a serious health and social threat in the world. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1n 2010, an estimated 16.5 million people use opium or its derivatives illicitly (1). Meanwhile, Iran has the first rank
Hossein Ghahremani +2 more
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