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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"crack cocaine"”.
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Adverse Effects of Crack/Cocaine to Marine Organisms Affected by Acidification Conditions
… will modify toxicity of the illicit drug cocaine and its byproducts. Aiming to address the effects of the combination of the all different stressors on the organisms used, and besides, to distinguish the effect observed related to each of the stressors, it was developed an integrated, and …
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Treatment Effects Related to EEG-Biofeedback for Crack Cocaine Dependency: Changes in Personality and Attentional Variables
… EEG biofeedback has addressed alcohol addiction. Cocaine is now considered to be the most common drug problem of patients entering treatment for drug abuse. To date, only one controlled study has been published that researched alpha-theta neurofeedback in the treatment of "crack" cocaine …
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Health experiences of women who are street-involved and use crack cocaine : inequity, oppression, and relations of power in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
… among residents of British Columbia. While crack cocaine use has been associated with many of these problems, we lack an understanding of how women who use crack cocaine experience these health problems and what they do to manage them. Informed by tenets of intersectionality and social …
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Crack as a moral panic: The racial implications inherent to crack and powder cocaine sentencing
… and extent of the print media's coverage of crack cocaine to determine whether a moral panic ensued during the late 1980's. A content analysis was conducted on the Los Angeles Times from 1985 to 1990, examining both the nature and extent of the Los Angeles Times' coverage of crack cocaine as …
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Examining the association between discrimination and risky social networks among illicit drug users
… (never injected and used non-injection heroin/crack/cocaine ≥ year at least 2-3 times/week) and a cross-sectional sample of newly initiated injection drug users (heroin/crack/cocaine injectors ≤ 3 years) recruited through respondent driven sampling and targeted street outreach in …
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Disenfranchising the Black Other: A Critique of American Drug Laws
… drug laws which provide different sentences for crack cocaine, used more often by poor blacks because of its cheapness and availability in poor neighborhoods, and powder cocaine, used more often by upper class whites, punish blacks for their status as Other. Disproportionately punishing them for …
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The versatility of counselling psychology in the field of substance misuse
… study examined whether CM reduced concurrent crack cocaine misuse among opiate maintenance clients at a community drug and alcohol service (NHS). The study employed a quasi experimental design in which twenty-one (n = 21) opiate maintenance clients voluntarily chose to participate in the CM …
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Peripheral Arterial Disease Screening of an Underserved High Risk Population
… of whom were found to have a history of smoking crack cocaine.
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
… in individuals with a long history of heroin/crack cocaine dependence. This investigation uses attachment theory (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) as a central pillar of the explanatory framework, while also drawing upon psychodynamic concepts to illuminate and interpret …
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An investigation into illicit drug trafficking and its Implications for national security: A case study of Khomas Region, Namibia
… of cannabis; 4,930 tablets of Mandrax; 1,072g of cocaine powder; 650 units of crack cocaine and 2,922 g of crystal meth in 2020. This study employed a qualitative research methodology, using a case study research design. The study found among others that, drug trafficking in Namibia could lead to …
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“I Use Because I'm in Pain”: Perspectives on Harm Reduction Services and Unmet Needs Among People Who Use Fentanyl
… fentanyl powder, heroin, methamphetamines, and crack cocaine. Themes were divided into two main categories: unmet needs (housing, pain management, isolation/community engagement, and case worker communication), and perspectives on harm reduction interventions (Suboxone, methadone, overdose …
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The Relationship Between Maternal Depression And Negative Outcomes In Children: Parenting Deficits' Impact On Children's Emotional Regulation And Behavioral Expression
… the pathways between maternal impairments (crack/cocaine use disorder, general psychopathology, and self-regulation deficits), child-rearing deficits (parenting deficits, child neglect, child physical/ sexual abuse), and adverse child outcomes (substance abuse, aggressive/ delinquent …
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An Exploration of how the Social Supply and User-Dealer Supply of Illicit Drugs Differs to Conventional Notions of Drug Dealing and Consideration of the Consequences of this for Sentencing Policy
… supply definition. In a similar way, heroin and crack cocaine user-dealers - a group who are also perhaps not best understood as profit motivated suppliers - have received insufficient academic attention, with the majority of research references failing to go beyond typologies that recognise them …
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The Association Between Medication Adherence in Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder Relapse in Patients with Dual Diagnosis
… 50%), followed by alcohol (n=12, 31.6%), and crack cocaine (n=4, 10.5%). The average length of substance use was 20.3 years. Half of the patients (n=19, 50%) had two or more mental illness diagnoses and the most common was the combination of MDD and GAD (n=9, 23.7%), followed by MDD alone …
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The social construction of harm reduction expertise: disjointed actors across a fragmented urban health landscape
… bought, sold, and used drugs—primarily fentanyl, crack, cocaine, methamphetamine, and k2. In addition, I completed over 100 ethnographic interviews with outreach workers, police officers, EMS workers, neighbors, and business owners. In this dissertation, I report on the perspectives of the people …
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Patient Satisfaction with Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Services
… engaged in the use of alcohol (n=8, 47%), crack cocaine (n=2, 11.7%), or multiple substances (n=4, 23.5%) as their drug(s) of choice. The men primarily reported being satisfied with the program along with depicting high levels of satisfaction with skills demonstrated by the counselors and …
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THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE
<p><em>The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking</em> is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance …