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The rise of drug dealing in the life of the North American street gang [PDF]
Historical gang literature traditionally perceived street gangs as boisterous outfits occasionally engaged in delinquency. In recent decades however, street gang behavior has come to be seen ever more as encroaching upon criminality, primarily due to its
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This study aimed to identify the use of drugs by six to seven-year-old students from an elementary school in Celaya, Gto., Mexico. It is a cross-sectional exploratory study with non-probabilistic sample.
María de Lourdes García Campos +1 more
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N-nitrosamines, which are well-known pro-mutagens, are found in drugs, pickled food and tobacco. Therefore, controlling their concentrations is very important.
Hao-Yue Guan +4 more
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Drug Abuse Among Street Children [PDF]
In The Gambia like all nations, drug abuse is seen as a social and health problem that has many serious implications for the physical, social, psychological and intellectual development of the victims more especially, the children. Therefore, it continues to be a concern to families, community leaders, educators, social workers, health care ...
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The aim was to describe relationships between gender and drug use as well as risk behaviors that may be associated with drug use among first-year students at the University of São Paulo-Ribeirão Preto.
Sandra Cristina Pillon +2 more
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Volatile substance misuse among high school students in South America [PDF]
This article summarizes data from a 2004 study of over 300,000 high school students (aged 13–18 years) in nine South American countries. A probabilistic sample targeted urban secondary schools, utilizing a self-administered questionnaire on prevalence ...
Delva, Jorge +3 more
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Background: Street children are at risk when they are on the streets, such as using drugs, free sex, using tattoos, piercing, and being infected with HIV.
Nur Hidayahtul Dewi +3 more
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1,4 Butanediol (BD) intoxication: report of the first case in Brazil [PDF]
The authors present the case of a patient in coma in an emergencyroom, with special hemodynamic, respiratory and neurologicalcharacteristics due to acute intoxication with 1,4 butanediol; thearticle includes a literature review.
Celio Levyman +3 more
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Crack Cocaine and Infectious Tuberculosis
We hypothesize that crack cocaine is independently associated with smear-positive tuberculosis (TB). In a case–control study of TB in London, 19 (86%) of 22 crack cocaine users with pulmonary TB were smear positive compared with 302 (36%) of 833 non–drug
Alistair Story +2 more
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Adolescents, Street, Drugs and Psychoactive Substances: A Study on Risk and Protection
The article describes the consumption of psychoactive substances (PSs) by street-involved children and adolescents (SCA) in three Brazilian state capitals and examines adverse life events due to drug involvement.
Juliana Prates Santana +3 more
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