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The war on drugs, forensic science and the death penalty in the Philippines [PDF]
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2020 The effectiveness of the death penalty to deter heinous crimes remains a contentious issue even though it has been abolished in many countries. Three years into President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, the push to re-impose the death penalty is being ...
Maria Corazon A. De Ungria, Jose M. Jose
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How the war on drugs impacts social determinants of health beyond the criminal legal system [PDF]
Annals of Medicine, 2022 There is a growing recognition in the fields of public health and medicine that social determinants of health (SDOH) play a key role in driving health inequities and disparities among various groups, such that a focus upon individual-level medical ...
Aliza Cohen +3 more
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Mental health impact of the war on drugs [PDF]
BJPsych International, 2015 Further to the publication by the London School of Economics and Political Science of the report Ending the Drug Wars, this editorial focuses on the mental health impact of the ‘war on drugs' and on the need to end such policies in favour of evidence ...
M. Malliori +3 more
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Why the war on drugs in sport will never be won. [PDF]
Harm Reduct J, 2015 Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and ...
Smith AC, Stewart B.
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America’s Longest War – the War on Drugs [PDF]
, 2015 The problem of using illicit drugs in the United States, which is the largest drug consumer in the world, is an important and controversial subject. The prohibition, which aimed to eliminate alcohol from the American society, ended in a failure. In the case of federal drug legislation, the first acts appeared exactly one hundred years ago.
Wyrwisz, Anna
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The War on Drugs - a war on drug users? [PDF]
Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 2000 The authors argue that since the 1980s UK drug policy has largely been ill considered, reactive and counter- productive. Rather than reducing drug taking and drug related crime, such policies have exacerbated the problem and contributed towards an environment in which drug use and illegal drug activities are likely to flourish.
Buchanan, Julian, Young, L
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Journal of World-Systems Research, 2021 This article argues Mexico’s war on drugs was a tactic by elites in both the United States and Mexico to legitimate the Mexican neoliberal state’s political, economic, and ideological governance over Mexican society.
Steven Osuna
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The Myofibroblasts’ War on Drugs [PDF]
Developmental Cell, 2018 The intestinal lining faces a constant assault from harmful gut contents. A study by Chee and colleagues in this issue of Developmental Cell describes how a population of myofibroblasts resists these threats and boosts regeneration of the intestinal epithelium.
Puschhof, Jens, Clevers, Hans
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 In this essay, I show that notwithstanding the undeniable colonial origins of punitive drug policies around the world, such policies have figured in nationalist projects and populist platforms in various postcolonial states, and today they are viewed as ...
Gideon Lasco
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WIMAYA, 2023 Drug smuggling activities in the United States carried out by drug cartels from Mexico and Colombia contribute to the region's instabilities. Many threats and terrorist acts that accompanied the distribution of illegal drugs left civilians in fear.
Renitha Dwi Hapsari +2 more
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