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Presence of Lead in Opium [PDF]
Opium addiction is a common form of addiction in Middle East countries such as Iran. Recently several reports suggested some kinds of pathologic findings such as abdominal pain, nephropathy, and anemia in opium addict patients. Such pathologic findings
Aghaee-Afshar, Mahmoud +4 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Cholangiographic Features in Opium-Addicted Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Iran
Gastroenterology Research and Practice, 2012 Background/Aims. Destructive and metabolic changes in hepatobiliary system have been demonstrated following opium use; however, cholangiographic features of bile ducts in opium-addicted patients with sphincter of Oddi dysfunction are not clearly ...
Amir Houshang Mohammad Alizadeh +5 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
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Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply: Latest Trends, Cross-cutting Issues [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...
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Current Concepts on Drug Abuse and Dependence [PDF]
, 2015 Drug addiction is a complex disease characterized by compulsive and uncontrollable desire to seek and consume the drug. In time, drug-related terminology has undergone many changes, arising from the deepening of the mechanisms of action, but also about ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza +5 more
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2009 The psychopathological pattern of the postwithdrawal state in opium addiction patients is discussed. The pathological addiction to the drug in dependence of premorbid personality characteristics and the inverse dynamics are analyzed.
A. A. Abetova, M. T. Meldekhanova
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Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif +3 more
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The relationship of opium addiction with coronary artery disease
International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2010 Objectives: There is some controversy regarding the effect of opium addiction on the coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to determine the association between chronic opium consumption and CAD.
Mohammad Masoomi +2 more
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