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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"drug consumption"”.
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Szocializáció és drogfogyasztás. Szocializációs rizikótényezők vizsgálata kezelésben részesült drogfogyasztó fiatalok körében = Socialisation and drug consumption. A study of socialisation risk factors among young drug consumers under treatment
A dolgozat a deviancia egyik megnyilvánulási formájával a drogfogyasztással foglalkozik. A drogfogyasztás vizsgálata azért is nagyon fontos, mert az elmúlt 10-15 évben jelentős mértékben nőtt az illegális drogok fogyasztása Magyarországon és Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megyében egyaránt. A társadalom …
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Three Essays on Crime
… relationship between property crime and minimum drug consumption requirements. I use a crime model with an exogenous income distribution to determine the government's optimal drug supply control in the presence of drug addicts who might be induced to commit property crime to satisfy their minimum …
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Life events, stress and the consumption of heroin, alcohol and tobacco
… thesis. The evidence that life events affect drug use is then examined. A number of methodological flaws exist in these studies and it is therefore difficult to draw any conclusions about the impact of life events. In part II of the thesis, models of drug use are reviewed and some preliminary …
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Multi-site sampling and risk prioritization of antibiotic resistance genes in sewage environments
… some cases, resemble differences in antibiotic drug consumption. Finally, we find that the flow of antibiotic resistance genes is influenced by geographical distance and environmental selection.
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
… engagement. In the early seventies, West German drug users, alongside student activists and terrorists, appeared as profound threats to social order in postwar Germany. Less than two decades later, however, West Germans had come to terms with all three groups. In the process, West Germany …
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Analysis of Illicit Drugs, Their Metabolites and Other Micropollutants in Water by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry
… study, we focused in the analysis of illicit drugs and drug metabolites because these analyses have the potential to serve as markers of drug abuse. We have detected over sixteen different illicit drugs and their metabolites in wastewater taken from a small school campus in northern Illinois. …
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Sex differences in synaptic plasticity within the reward system: the role of PKMζ and implications for opioid use disorder
… substance use disorder, women escalate their drug consumption faster, exhibit higher craving during withdrawal, and have poorer treatment outcomes. Furthermore, as our cultural expectations of men and women have changed, there has been an increase in drug use in women and this increase is …
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Post-war Britain’s First Youth Subculture: The Bebop Scene in Soho, 1945–1950
… style, as well as the cultural rituals of drug consumption and transracial relations – the thesis establishes for the first time the ways in which bebop identities were constructed and articulated, how they spread to the London suburbs, and how they were received by the authorities and the …
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Dynamics of the illicit drug market in Italy
… street crime, a high prevalence of illicit drug consumption in the population represents a great source of funding for organized crime, and this is especially true in Italy, where the main criminal organizations control almost all the imports of cocaine and heroin: as a consequence, it is of …
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Adoption of ICT4D frameworks to support screening for depression in Nigerian universities
… cigarette smoking and high level of alcohol consumption. Effective prevention of medical condition and access to healthcare resources are important factors that affect peoples’ welfare and quality of life. Regular assessment for depression has been suggested as the first important steps to …
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Empowering Reproductive Health & Access to Enhance College Student Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Community Engaged Proposal
… behaviors such as alcohol usage and illicit drug consumption which can increase the likelihood of unsafe sexual behaviors. Reproductive healthcare access is linked to academic success, improved health outcomes, and holistic well-being. The proposal utilizes a community-engaged socioecological …
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System Identification and Adaptive Closed-Loop Glucose Control in a Type 1 Diabetic Swine Model
… between tight blood-glucose control and optimal drug consumption, while simultaneously maintaining emphasis on simplicity and reliability.
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Role of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in reducing injecting drug use-related harm: evaluating accessibility, utilisation, coverage and selected health impacts
Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs), where injecting drug users (IDUs) can use pre-obtained drugs in a hygienic and professionally supervised low threshold setting, aim to engage high risk IDUs, reduce public drug use, injecting-related morbidity and mortality, and improve access to drug treatment. This …
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The Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A multi-site study with community samples
A Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A Multi-Site Study with Community Samples By Arbi Ben Abdallah The consumption of mind-altering drugs is well recognized as a complex behavior entailing many different etiological precursors. To understand its complexity, drug …
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Impact of Cost Sharing Levels on Adherence to Controller Drugs and Consequent Outcomes among Asthma Patients
<p>Prescription drug cost sharing is an effective tool to reduce the excessive drug consumption. However, many times it could have a negative impact on the drug utilization especially in case of chronic conditions. Chronic conditions such as asthma require appropriate utilization of controller …
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The Distribution of opiates, cocaine and their metabolites in skeletal muscle tissue and vitreous humour as an aid to post-mortem toxicological interpretation.
Post-mortem blood drug concentrations vary greatly and as a consequence of post-mortem change and redistribution may not reflect the concentration at the time of death. Tissues that are located away from central drug reservoirs and that lack esterase activity, e.g. muscle and vitreous humour (VH), …
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THE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES, DEMAND, AND INNOVATION
… firms to increase prices for brand-name drugs targeting medical conditions more prevalent among adult workers aged 19 to 64. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in exposure to these provisions would lead to a 0.079 percent increase in brand-name prices per prescription. While …