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‘Ten Years Later’ – Developing Institutional Mechanisms for Drug Demand Reduction and Addictology Education in Georgia – A Case Study
BACKGROUND:
During the last ten years, Georgia made several important accomplishments in responding to the country’s drug problem. Specifically, in 2011, an interagency national drug coordinating body was established within the Ministry...
The Key Drivers of Alcohol Supply and Demand
Alcohol outlets will open to sell alcohol and meet market demand. The supply and demand are linked so that greater supply will induce yet greater demand. Analysis of neighbourhood structure is important so as to help shape public health...
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Solution to Detect, Classify, and Report Illicit Online Marketing and Sales of Controlled Substances via Twitter
ABSTRACT
Background: On December 6 and 7, 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted its first Code-a-Thon event aimed at leveraging technology and data-driven solutions to help combat the opioid epidemic. The...
یوه جدی موضوع : د خندا ګاز د انګلستان د روانی فعالو مادو د عمل بیا کتنه
په ۲۰۱۶ کال کې معرفی شو، د اروافعاله توکو قانون د نویو نشه یی توکو د انفلونزا سره د چلند لپاره جوړ شوی چې اکثراً د قانونی لوړې په توګه لیبل شوی دی.
دا عمل منع کوی هر هغه ماده چې "د شخص د مرکزی عصبی سیستم په پارولو یا پرېکولو سره... د شخص...
ISSUP at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Illuminating the Dark Web
The Economist reports that the drug trade is moving from the street to so-called online ‘cryptomarkets’, or secret virtual-shop-fronts.
Online markets currently facilitate a comparatively small amount of illegal drug sales. Nonetheless...
Revealed: The Global Cost of Smoking
Smoking and its related harms cost the world more than $1 trillion and claim the lives of around 6 million people each year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute.
$1...
OxyContin Goes Global — “We’re Only Just Getting Started”
The LA Times investigates the expansion of pharmaceutical companies internationally which are trying to sell highly addictive OxyContin, an opioid medications, and are utilizing entertainers and sports figures to enter markets around the...
Fentanyl Deaths Rise as Curbing Supply Proves Difficult
The November 2016 data chart of overdoses in Massachusetts shows a climbing blue line labeled “fentanyl”. Boston's National Public Radio station reports via article and audio clip on some of the challenges faced by law enforcement and...
۷۵٪ ځوانان د تمباکو لپاره د خوندی بدیل په توګه ای - سیګرېټ وینی
په امریکا کې د ۴ ځوانانو څخه تقریبا ۳ یې فکر کوی چې ای - سګریټ د تنباکو د څکولو په پرتله لږ زیان رسوونکی یا روږدی دی، یوه نوې څیړنه موندلې ده. دغه څیړونکی دا هم وموندل چې د هغه څه په اړه چې د "vaping" په توګه پیژندل شوی دی په مثبت ډول د...
Scottish Courts Rule in Favour of Minimum Price for Alcohol
After more than four years of industry delay tactics, yesterday’s ruling from the Court of Session in Edinburgh has finally paved the way for the introduction of a minimum price for alcohol in Scotland, a policy approved by MSPs back in...
ماریونا او زوکړه: اغیزې څه دی؟
د امریکا څلور ایالتونه په اوس وخت کې د آر تفریحی ماریخوانا کارولو ته اجازه ورکوی او څلورویشت طبی ماریونا ته اجازه ورکوی. که څه هم، د امېدنی په وخت کې د سګرټ څکول یا مصرف په صورت کې د انسان د امېدرانو د ودې په اړه د نشه یی توکو د اغېز د...
د څیړنې په ترڅ کې د طبی ماریونا د مړینې د کمولو لپاره د افیوپی ډوز څخه د مړینې د کمېدو سره اړیکه
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