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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"illicit drugs"”.
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Genetic engineering of antibody fragments for the detection of illicit drugs
The monitoring of illicit drugs is now of major importance. Key areas of analysis include the detection of illicit use by drivers, workplace testing, forensic investigations and general monitoring to detect or reduce abuse. Thus, the development of a highly sensitive and reliable array-based assay …
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Perceptions of illicit drugs and drug users: myth-understandings and policy consequences
… these published works relates to the ways that drugs, drug users, and the activities which surround them are often subject to exaggeration, distortion and untruths and that drug control policy, rather than being rationally based is often the result of fear, prejudice and unreason. The core of …
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The constitutional case for legal regulation of illicit drugs in South Africa
… of certain psychoactive substances deemed illicit and the criminalisation of their production, distribution and use, to wit: prohibition drug policy. This paper contends that prohibition drug policy is unsound on the grounds that it is utterly ineffective and vulgarly counterproductive. …
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Detection of Illicit Drugs in Various Matrices Via Total Vaporization Solid-Phase Microextraction
… in beverages is of importance because these drugs may be used to facilitate sexual assault. This crime utilizes substances that cause sedation and memory loss. The derivatization of GHB as well as the properties that make GHB difficult to detect will be discussed. Chapter 3 will discuss the …
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
… research has shown that media coverage of illicit drug issues can play an important role in influencing public opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan media, …
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The distribution and consumption of illicit drugs : some mathematical models and their policy implications
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Analysis of Illicit Drugs, Their Metabolites and Other Micropollutants in Water by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry
… of this 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 …
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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
The concept of ‘social supply’ has emerged as a term used both in the UK, and internationally, to describe drug distribution that is non-commercially motivated and almost exclusively found between friends and acquaintances. Social suppliers have increasingly been presented as actors who are …
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Demographic and psychosocial correlates of illicit drug use in pregnancy: a mixed methods study
… demographic and psychosocial correlates of illicit drug use among pregnant women and to explore the life experiences and circumstances that contribute to women’s use of illicit drugs during pregnancy. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods design consisting of quantitative and qualitative …
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Adolescent Involvement in Alcohol and Drug Use
… and organic materials that can be labelled drugs. Such materials would include alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, the opiates and also the hundreds of medicines to be found in chemist shops. Our society is a drug taking society, that is a pill for every ill. …
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THE WEST AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC; AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
… trafficking, marketing and consumption of illicit drugs. The countries in West Africa have not been spared of the negative consequences of illicit drugs. While some countries have an illicit drug production problem, others have a consumption problem. The countries in West Africa have an …
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Community, Family and Peer Influences on Alcohol, Marijuana, and Illicit Drug Use of Native American Youth: An Analysis of Protective Factors
… and thirty day use of alcohol, marijuana, and illicit drugs of Native American youth residing on and off reservations. The results derived from ordinary least squares regression equations show significant predictability for family, peer, and community variables and the results for the …
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Community, Family and Peer Influences on Alcohol, Marijuana, and Illicit Drug Use of Native American Youth: An Analysis of Protective Factors
… and thirty day use of alcohol, marijuana, and illicit drugs of Native American youth residing on and off reservations. The results derived from ordinary least squares regression equations show significant predictability for family, peer, and community variables and the results for the …
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Perceptions of illicit drug use and risky sexual behaviour among first year psychology students at the University of the Western Cape
… between risky sexual behaviour and alcohol and illicit drugs. In the Western Cape drug-related behaviours is a growing concern among young people because of relatively high prevalence rates of drug abuse, particularly methamphetamine. Previous South African studies have tended to focused on the …
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An examination of youth alcohol and drug use in Prince Albert.
… Prince Albert youth used alcohol, marijuana, illicit drugs, and binge drank at much higher rates than samples of Saskatchewan or Canadian youth who were asked the same questions. In addition, the age of onset for substance use was earlier for Prince Albert youth compared to the Saskatchewan or …
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The Relationship between Family Functioning and Adolescent Substance Use
… and self-reported use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. The theoretical perspectives of the study, derived from developmental theory and the Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems viewed the adolescent stage as a period in which the entire family is challenged to balance levels of …
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Study of SERS for the detection of drugs of abuse
… Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for the detection of illicit drugs in oral fluid using metal enhancement mechanisms was undertaken. Initial work investigated ecstasy tablet composition using Raman to identify what drugs and excipients might be present in oral fluid samples obtained from users. …
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Specifying the Links Between Adolescent Substance Use and Traditional Delinquency Theories: A Negative Bionomial Approach
The consumption of alcohol and illicit drugs among adolescents has been a growing concern in sociology and related disciplines (Hayes-Smith and Whaley 2009; Embry, Hankins, Biglan, and Boles 2009; Herman-Stahl, Krebs, Kroutil, Heller 2007). The societal and financial effects of substance use in …
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