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Prisons and Drugs: A global review of incarceration, drug use and drug services. Report 12 [PDF]

, 2007
Prisons play an important role in drug policy. They are used to punish people who break drug laws and they also hold a large number of people who have experience of drug use and drug problems.
Brentari, C., Dolan, K., Khoei, E.M., Stevens, Alex   +3 more
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No Exit: China's State Surveillance over People Who Use Drugs.

Health and human rights, 2022
In China, although drug use is an administrative and not criminal offense, individuals detained by public security authorities are subject to coercive or compulsory "treatment," which can include community-based detoxification and rehabilitation and two years of compulsory isolation.
Mu Lin, Nina Sun, Joseph J. Amon
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Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Abdulazeez Opeyemi Abdulganiyu   +2 more
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Stemming the Global Trade in Falsified and Substandard Medicines [PDF]

, 2013
Drug safety and quality is an essential assumption of clinical medicine, but there is growing concern that this assumption is not always correct. Poor manufacturing and deliberate fraud occasionally compromises the drug supply in the United States, and ...
Buckley, Gillian J., Gostin, Lawrence O., Kelley, Patrick W.   +2 more
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A tale of two towns: A comparative study exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of social capital among people seeking recovery from substance misuse [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Social capital has become an influential concept in debating and understanding the modern world. Within the drug and alcohol sector, the concept of ‘recovery capital’ has gained traction with researchers suggesting that people who have access
Avico U., Bartkus V. O., Best D., Best D., Best D., Bourdieu P., Bourgois P., Burt R. S., BVFC, Carpiano R. M., Change, Grow, Live, Cheung Y. W., Cheung Y. W., Cloud W., Coleman J., David Best, Davies J. B, Field J., Glaser B., Gordon A. J., Granfield R., Granovetter M. S., Griffiths P., Hammersely R., Harocops A., Haslem S. A., HM Government, Jetten J., Kennedy B. P., Koram N., Laitkin C. A., Li L., Meyer D., Neale J., NTA, NTA, Panebianco D., Parkin S., Portes A., Public Health England, Public Health England, Putnam R., Putnam R. D., Radcliffe P., Samantha Weston, Sampson R., Shuller T., Stuart Honor, Sugrue T., Terrion L. J., Turner J. C., Van Deth J. W., Van Meter K., White W., Woolcock M., Zmerli S., Zywiak W.   +56 more
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Tracking Motor Progression and Device‐Aided Therapy Eligibility in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterise the progression of motor symptoms and identify eligibility for device‐aided therapies in Parkinson's disease, using both the 5‐2‐1 criteria and a refined clinical definition, while examining differences across genetic subgroups.
David Ledingham, Sahana Sathyanarayana, Charlotte B. Stewart, Robyn Iredale, Victoria Foster, Debra Galley, Mark Baker, Nicola Pavese   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN NIFEDIPIN PADA PENDERITA HIPERTENSI TERHADAP LAJU ALIRAN SALIVA DAN PEMBESARAN GINGIVA [PDF]

, 2015
Background : The prevalence of hypertension is increasing in society. Nifedipine as one of antihypertensive drugs from Calcium Channel Blocker is the type of drug that is often used . The impact on the oral cavity due to the use of nifedipine in patients
Danniswara, Fadia Ghaisani, Restadiamawati, Restadiamawati   +1 more
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Assessing the experience of using synthetic cannabinoids by means of interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: New psychoactive substances (NPS) have been increasingly consumed by people who use drugs in recent years, which pose a new challenge for treatment services. One of the largest groups of NPS is synthetic cannabinoids (SCs), which are intended
A Meshack, A Winstock, AL Bretteville-Jensen, AR Winstock, BOB Green, Brigitta Böröndi, C Boserman, C Duff, CL Arfken, D Castellanos, EE Bonar, G Loeffler, GA Wiesbeck, H Müller, J Rácz, JA Smith, JA Smith, JA Smith, JC Barker, JP Lee, Judit Nóra Pintér, JV Hill, JW Huffman, József Rácz, K Rodham, Kitti Kerekes, L Fattore, L Fattore, L Móró, M Larkin, MJ Barratt, MS Castaneto, N Ji, N Nacca, N O'Neill, N Veer Van Der, NA Bassir, O Corazza, OR Bilgrei, P Shinebourne, P St John-Smith, R Kemp, R Vandrey, RJ Tait, S Dresen, S Every-Palmer, SJ Bright, Szilvia Kassai, Tamás Tóth-Karikó, US Zimmermann, V Macfarlane, V. Anna Gyarmathy, VA Gyarmathy, W Hall, WE Fantegrossi   +54 more
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Detaining people who use drugs in Cambodia: A dual-track system

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2021
Reports focusing on drug detention centres in Cambodia have predominantly been concerned with documenting conditions and human rights abuses in the government centres, while highlighting the failure of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to adopt a human rights and public health-based approach to substance use issues.
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Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani, Lakshmi Pillai, Reid D. Landes, Aliyah Glover, Shannon Doerhoff, Jennifer Kleiner, Mitesh Lotia, Rohit Dhall, Edgar Garcia‐Rill   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source