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Gutebrand, Kristoffer. "Ett Drogfritt Samhälle : En filosofisk förfrågan om Sveriges narkotikapolitik." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-140427.

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Sveriges narkotikapolitik har en tydlig noll vision; Sverige skall bli ett drogfritt samhälle. För att uppnå det målet följer Sverige en så kallad nolltoleransmodell, vilket innebär en strikt policy som säger att all hantering och bruk oavsett volym och syfte är olagligt. Jag argumenterar att det är en skadlig och ineffektiv policy att applicera på drogproblematiken i Sverige och argumenterar därför istället för att införa en så kallad skadereducerande policy. Detta är istället en policy som accepterar att droger är en del av samhället. En sådan policy jobbar främst med förebyggande och behand

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Coull, Alison Frances. "Leg ulceration in young people who inject drugs : causative factors, and how harm may be reduced : a mixed methods approach." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24081.

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The thesis explores chronic leg ulceration experienced by young people who inject drugs (PWID). The applied health research study, in two phases, used a sequential explanatory mixed methods design. Phase 1 involved a survey of 200 people who injected drugs to investigate the prevalence of skin problems and leg ulceration, together with the identification of risk factors for ulceration. Phase 2 involved a series of fifteen qualitative semi-structured interviews that explored the results relating to risk factors with a sample of PWID who had experienced leg ulceration, and investigated participa

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Septiadi, Dedy. "Optical imaging and drug delivery using soft- and hard- nanomaterials." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAF036/document.

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Le travail décrit dans cette thèse se concentre sur le développement de matériaux « durs et mous » ainsi que leur interaction avec les cellules biologiques pour une application finale dans le domaine de la théranostique couvrant l'imagerie, la détection, la thérapie génique et la thérapie du cancer. Dans ce contexte, nous avons tout d'abord étudié l'utilisation de complexes (II) de platine phosphorescents auto-assemblés comme sonde cellulaire. Nous avons étendu l'idée de bio-imagerie en introduisant un concept d’imagerie basée sur l’émission stimulée où nous étions en mesure de générer un lase

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Kosinski, Jake M. "Drug Markets and the State: A Perspective from Political Economy." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1411564078.

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Dordunoo, Stephen Kwaku. "Characterization of drug-carrier systems for liquid filling of hard gelatin capsules." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261411.

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Beem, Amanda. "Governing cannabis highs and harms: Australia's neoliberal harm minimisation illicit drugs framework." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203745/1/Amanda_Beem_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis applies Bacchi's (2009; 2016) policy analysis framework, to Australian illicit drug policy texts (1985–2017) to interrogate exercises of power in illicit drug policy. Findings reveal the dominance of legal and health/well-being discourses which produce the body as a site of self-governance ('responsibilisation'), while epidemiological narratives narrow the cannabis 'problem' and omit why cannabis is used for recreation. Failure to resolve the historical influence of morality associated with public health rationalities and their intersection with law and order has meant that harm mi

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Bond, Ethan J. "A Ban on Performance - Enhancing Drugs? Harm, Nature of Sport and Dehumanization." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/248.

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In this paper, I seek to determine whether the current ban on performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in professional sport is justified. I look at two of the most common categories of arguments in favor of the ban, which I term the Harm Category and The Nature of Sport Category, and ultimately determine that neither is strong enough to justify the current ban. I determine, however, that a third and less common category of arguments, which I term the Dehumanization Category, provides good reason to justify the ban by appealing to our intuitions about why the use of PEDs in professional sport is wro

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Pereira, Margaret A. "Governing drug use among young people : crime, harm and contemporary drug use practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63631/1/Margaret_Pereira_Thesis.pdf.

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Taking an empirical, critical approach to the problem of drugs, this thesis explores the interaction of drug policies and young people's drug use in Brisbane. The research argues that criminalising drug users does not usually prevent harmful drug use, but it can exacerbate harm and change how young people use drugs. Contemporary understandings of drug use as either recreational or addictive can create a false binary, and influence how illicit drugs are used. These understandings interact with policy responses to the drug problem, with some very real implications for the lived experiences of dr

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Small, William. "Injection settings and drug-related harm in Vancouver, Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25983.

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Ecological approaches to addressing injection-related risk seek to reduce drug-related harm by identifying and removing environmental barriers to risk-reduction. While the settings where drugs are injected represent a key location for these efforts, further knowledge regarding the role of injection settings is required to understand and address context-specific barriers to risk-reduction. This thesis sought to employ the risk environment framework and use ethnographic methods to examine two key types of injection settings, public injection venues and a local supervised injection facility (SIF)

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Degenstein, Dane. "The War on Drugs and Social Policy in Tanzania: Crackdowns, Prohibition and Control." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41209.

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In February 2017, Tanzanian President John Magufuli publicly declared a war on drugs, an unexpected change in policy in a country previously leading the way in harm reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. The war on drugs, a set of policies aimed at reducing drug supply and use through the punishment, forced treatment and criminalization of drug users, is a part of Magufuli’s strategy to ‘clean up’ Tanzanian society. Prior to his election, the Tanzanian government largely ignored treatment and drug policy, and foreign NGOs, in partnership with local activists, funded and implemented harm reduction in

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Utting, Anita A. "Liquid filled hard gelatin capsules : an investigation of thermosoftened drug/poloxamer solid dispersion formulations in relation to drug release mechanisms." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327315.

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Zettel, Patti. "Meeting people where they are at : how nurses, using the framework of harm reduction, make sense of nursing practice with people who use drugs." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2651.

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Nurses who work with people who use drugs in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (DTES), British Columbia are on the forefront in advancing a harm reduction framework in very controversial, cutting-edge practice environments. The purpose of this study was to explore how these nurses, using the framework of harm reduction, make sense of their nursing practice. It is hoped that the results of this study may advance adopting a harm reduction framework in nursing practice, education and policy development and serve as the foundation for further nursing research. This study utilized a qualitative in

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Parés-Badell, Oleguer 1987. "Health outcomes and use of harm reduction services in people who use drugs in Catalonia." Doctoral thesis, TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670641.

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Harm reduction is a set of programs and interventions that aim to reduce health and social harms of drug use. The Barcelona model aims to maximize access to harm reduction services and to integrate them with treatment programs. This thesis objective is to describe the prevalence and associated factors of health outcomes - non-fatal overdose, HIV and Hepatitis C – in people who use harm reduction programs, and to evaluate the impact of extending the opening hours of a harm reduction program. The thesis consists of three articles based on data from the REDAN study, a cross-sectional bio-behav

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Brooks, Billy. "Harm Reduction Panel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3182.

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Walters, Philippa Anne. "A rheological approach to the formulation and drug release of thixotropic gels for hard gelatin capsules." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239687.

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Scott, Jennifer. "Development, implementation and evaluation of harm reduction techniques for drug users." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340071.

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Waeladee, Sritakool. "Drug control policy in Thailand : the shift more towards harm reduction." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685147.

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Previous research has demonstrated that a long development of Thai drug policy along with crime control and immorality explained the dominance of a prohibition ideology in drug policy in the present day. None of the previous research has yet to address the significant change occurring recently with the adoption of harm reduction ideas to the Thai drug policy, 20 10/20 II. Hence, this research aims to be the first to provide novel insights into such important incident. This research has two key aims. The primary research aim is to gain better understand of the process of 'how' factors, such as,

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PETEET, (MITCHELL) BRIDGETTE J. "GENDER AS A MODERATOR OF FAMILY DRUG INFLUENCE AND CHILD FUTURE DRUG RISK." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1112968034.

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Greving, Jacoba Petronella. "Trends in cardiovascular drug prescribing in Dutch general practice role of patient and physician related characteristics /." [S.l. : [Groningen : s.n.] ; University Library Groningen] [Host], 2006. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/298796104.

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Resiak, Danielle. "Advancing PTSD Diagnosis, Treatment, and Dissemination of Trauma Care in Humanitarian Emergencies – A Proof-of-Concept Clinical Trial." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29678.

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Decentralised health systems in low- and middle-income countries impacted by humanitarian crises lack resources and a qualified workforce to attend to the overwhelming demand for mental health care in emergencies. Cross-cultural screening and diagnostic tools, alongside innovative treatment approaches that are safe, cost-effective, and scalable are needed. The primary aims of this study included (1) examining the clinical validity of a new screener, the Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS), among refugees; (2) identifying candidate cognitive and electrophysiological diagnostic markers of combined

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Wong, Gabriel. "A Multi-criteria Framework for Analysing Cross-cultural Differences in Adolescent Drug Policy." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/379941.

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Adolescent drug involvement and its associated harms reflect a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon, which makes holistic policy decisions and trade-offs of intended and unintended policy impact difficult to manage. Drug prevention scientists commonly perceive the involvement of drugs as a continuum with consecutive stages from non-use to dysfunctional use. Each of these stages reflects a unique system of risks and harms (in personal, social and environmental domains) which is specific to the subpopulation within the culture. Hence, for drug intervention to be effective, it is crucial that the

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Lishchynski, Marc A. "Harm reduction from the perspective of the illicit drug user: A study." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26958.

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The notion of harm reduction has existed in many fields of study for a considerable period of time, but it has recently resurfaced primarily in the field of public health policy since the discovery of HIV and the ensuing AIDS pandemic. Harm reduction has been identified by various authorities in health care as a policy that may help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS among users of illicit, injectable drugs. This focus on health matters makes the development of a more holistic approach towards harm reduction for users of injectable drugs difficult. This study seeks the perspective of users of illic

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Sabet-Sharghi, S. "Toward reducing total harm : analyzing drug policies in Baltimore and New York." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487520.

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Governments spend billions of dollars trying to reduce drug use and minimize its harms. Methods to control drug use and judge policy effectiveness, however, remain highly polarized. Some analysts adhere to a strict 'usereduction' paradigm where drug policy interventions are meant to reduce society-level drug prevalence. Others analyze policy in a 'harm reduction' ) context where priorities remain in reducing individual-level harms resulting / from using drugs, including the harms ofcurrent policies themselves. A 'third way,' total harm reduction, attempts to take into account all ofthese goals

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McNeil, Ryan. "The impact of environmental factors on risk, harm, and health care access among people who inject drugs." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44849.

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Background: Growing awareness of the role social, structural, and environmental factors in producing harm among people who inject drugs (IDU) has underscored the need for safer environment interventions. However, emerging evidence underscores how current interventions are insufficient to bring about more significant reductions in drug-related harm. To date, there have been few studies examining how contextual forces operating within the wider risk environment shape the socio-spatial relations of IDU in relation to safer environment interventions and health care settings. This dissertation seek

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Healy, Kaitlin Elizabeth. "Using Community Engagement Tools to Develop More Successful Harm-Reduction Strategies Among People Who Use Intravenous Drugs." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/503748.

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Urban Bioethics<br>M.A.<br>The current opioid epidemic has had grave financial and mortal costs for our nation, and the numbers continue to climb despite our best efforts. In spite of attempts to limit the prescription of opioids and implementation of harm reduction strategies, it is clear that we are not doing enough for people struggling with drug addiction. There are many voices present in the war on drugs, however one that is noticeably absent from the conversation is that of people who inject drugs. It is clearly time to try something new which requires a fresh approach and a new point of

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Campbell, Lea, and res cand@acu edu au. "Chemical Intent: Imagining the drug using client and the human service worker in harm minimisation policy." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences (VIC), 2007. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp172.09092008.

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This thesis is based on an Australian Research Council funded research grant. Fifty-one qualitative interviews were conducted with human service workers to gain an understanding of their interpretations of their clients’ ‘drug problems’ and of their own role, the service system and wider policies. Although harm minimisation has been Australia’s official drug policy since 1985, little is known about how harm minimisation is ‘enacted’ in the helping culture. To date human service workers have not been recognised in their constitutive role in harm minimisation discourse. Whilst a significant part

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Stengel, Camille May. "'Chicks on the corner' in Budapest : visualising harm and harm reduction at a women-only syringe exchange programme." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/54858/.

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Harm reduction is an approach that aims to reduce harms related to using drugs. Harm reduction services often fail to consider the needs of women who inject drugs or minimise responses to women’s needs in service design and implementation (Bennett et al., 2000; Brown et al., 2005; EMCDDA, 2006; Levy, 2014a; Pinkham, Stoicesu and Myers, 2012; UNODC et al., 2014). It is therefore crucial to understand the experiences of women who inject drugs from their own perspectives, as well as those of harm reduction workers, in order to develop and implement effective responses to injecting drug use. This

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Dantas, André Luís Toríbio. "Superpopulação carcerária no Rio de Janeiro regulada pela economia da droga: um efeito da política de criminalização imposta aos jovens residentes das comunidades carentes." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5738.

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Trata-se de estudo sobre a política de criminalização imposta aos jovens residentes das comunidades carentes do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Pretende-se identificar as visões antagônicas sobre essa questão e as discussões sobre o aumento do uso de drogas, associado à criminalidade e ao interesse de amplos setores da sociedade no combate a esse consumo e ao tráfico. Destacam-se os motivos que pressionam o Estado a construir uma política de combate às drogas, assim como a economia da droga influenciando e determinando os rumos de uma mentalidade que persegue uma eficácia questionável de consumo z

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Andersson, Johanna, and Emely Nilsson. ""Det ska inte vara lätt att knarka" : En studie om sprututbyte och svensk narkotikapolitik." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6618.

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<p>The drug treatment staff attitude towards needle exchange is what investigates in this study. The aim of this study is to see what’s affecting the standpoints in the needle exchange issue and also to investigate if the needle exchange is compatible with Swedish drug policy. The study has a qualitative approach and it’s based on eight semi-structured interviews with drug treatment staff. To analyze the empirical material we’ve used Berger and Luckmanns social construction theory, the theoretical concept profession socialization and the four ethical principles: autonomy principle, goodness ma

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Almeida, Stella Pereira de. "Sobre o uso de ecstasy: uma pesquisa com vistas à formulação de intervenção preventiva." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47135/tde-08022006-110827/.

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O primeiro objetivo do presente estudo, de cunho metodológico, foi verificar a viabilidade da realização de uma pesquisa com usuários de ecstasy via internet. A metodologia desenvolvida para o recrutamento e coleta de dados atingiu os objetivos propostos, demonstrando-se viável e profícua, além de apresentar grandes vantagens em relação à coleta de dados presencial. O segundo objetivo foi oferecer subsídio para futuras intervenções de Redução de Danos para o uso de ecstasy. O questionário on-line foi respondido por 1.140 pessoas, primordialmente jovens, com boa formação escolar, inseridos no m

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Layle, Michael J. "Community-Oriented Policing Strategies When Handling Nonviolent Drug Offenders." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1174.

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In this study, I analyze the responses of police officers to questions regarding their involvement in the use of Community-Oriented Policing strategies. When the officer encounters a drug offender they must decide how to deal with the situation. There are a variety of trained responses and policies available. The data is grouped into nine variables; time in law enforcement, time in department, perceived support, perceived barriers, COP strategy, COP action, prevention, help, and citation. The data is then analyzed using structural equation modeling.

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Kalinovská, Romana. "Efektivnost harm reduction v drogové politice s hlavním zaměřením na programy výměny jehel a výdejní automaty." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75148.

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The thesis deals with harm reduction in drug addition (damage reducing, next short cut HR) its effectiveness on the world and especially in the Czech Republic. At the beginning there is explained the term HR in drug addition, why did it originate, what does it involve and what are the opinions of the other states about it, mentioned in foreign studies, and economic theory. The main focus dedicates needle exchange programs in lowtreshold centres, in field programs and its additional services -- syringe vending machines, fixed/mobile vans. Next I concentrate on the different general view of the

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Patel, Sulay H. "Effects of HIV-1 Tat and drugs of abuse on antiretroviral penetration inside different CNS cell types." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5685.

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Human immunodeficiency (HIV) infection can result in neurocognitive deficits in about one-half of infected individuals. Despite excellent systemic effectiveness, restricted antiretroviral penetration across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a major limitation in fighting HIV infection within the central nervous system (CNS). Drug abuse exacerbates cognitive impairment and pathologic CNS changes in HIV-infected individuals. This work investigates the effects of the HIV-1 protein, Tat, and drugs of abuse on factors affecting drug penetration into the brain. Firstly, an in vitro model of the blood

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Bonar, Erin E. "Effect of injecting drug users' HIV status on treatment providers' acceptance of harm reduction interventions." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1182541350.

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Bonar, Erin Elizabeth. "Using the Health Belief Model to Predict Injecting Drug Users' Use of Harm Reduction." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1282833406.

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Webb, Michael Blair. "Addiction and the law : a case-study of the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Act." University of Canterbury. School of Law, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2567.

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The thesis presents a case study of New Zealand's Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Act 1966 - a civil commitment law used to detain alcoholics and drug addicts for up to two years in state-certified residential treatment facilities. The thesis positions itself as a call for legislative reform. The central argument is that the Act is an anachronistic and potentially draconian piece of social legislation which has no place on the modern-day New Zealand statute book. In the first part of the thesis, Chapter 1 introduces the research, outlines the structure and methodology of the thesis, and locates

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Debenham, Jennifer. "Harm reduction for alcohol and other drug use in young people: The seductive allure of neuroscience." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26407.

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A predominance of mental disorders, including substance use disorders, arise during adolescence and track into adulthood. Protracted neurodevelopment may promote the onset and escalation of substance use and increase the vulnerability to harm, however to date there has been no comprehensive review of neurobiological and cognitive risk factors and consequences of illicit substance use. Effective public health efforts to reduce the harms of substance use among young people are critically important. Senior secondary school represents an optimal developmental period to effect change, however age-a

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Mendoza, Pierre. "La politique criminelle de l'usage des drogues en Espagne." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON10052/document.

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Après plusieurs réformes du Code pénal espagnol, de 1971 à 1995, confortées par la loi du 22 juin 2010, le législateur a voulu établir une distinction entre les drogues : les substances qui causent un grave danger à la santé et les autres. Parallèlement, la doctrine majoritaire et la jurisprudence ont poursuivi cette avancée en consacrant l'impunité du consommateur de "drogues toxiques, de stupéfiants ou de substances psychotropes". Cependant, s'il s'agit d'un drogodélinquant ou d'un consommateur qui diffuserait sa déviance et en particulier à l'encontre d'un mineur ou d'une personne dont les

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Bruce, Kaashifah. "Factors influencing school staff's implementation of a pastoral care program designed to reduce students' harm from tobacco and other drugs." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/523.

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Tobacco, along with alcohol, is one of the most commonly used drugs in Australia. Although trends in adolescent smoking have decreased, it has been estimated that worldwide, 80,000 to 100,000 youth take up smoking every day. Hence, adolescent tobacco use is still an important public health issue. To measure the success of a school-based program that reduces harm from tobacco and other drugs, the effective implementation of the program is essential. Although school staff may recognise the value and importance of an intervention, inadequate implementation by these staff is a common occurrence in

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Milloy, Michael-John Sheridan. "Harm production : correctional environments, injection drug users and risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3433.

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Background: Analyses of the individual-, social- and structural-level factors promoting the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne pathogens have consistently identified exposure to correctional environments, especially for individuals who use injection drugs (IDU), as a risk factor for infection. The objectives of this project were: to review the epidemiologic literature on incarceration and HIV infection among IDU, critically examining evidence presented supporting a causal linkage between imprisonment and infection; to investigate incarceration experiences in a cohort of active ID

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Turner, Richard Vernon. "SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS: CHARACTERIZING THEIR USE AND CESSATION." OpenSIUC, 2019. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1766.

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Since their introduction to the United States in 2008, synthetic cannabinoids became the most widely used recreational drug behind marijuana, then regressed to an estimated prevalence of less than 1%. Contrary to expectations for a drug declining in use, emergency department presentations and acute poisonings related to the use of synthetic cannabinoids are increasing. Alongside this phenomenon, a growing body of literature is beginning to uncover a relationship between psychosis and synthetic cannabinoid use. A current gap in the literature exists surrounding harm prevention methods and targe

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Aydemir, Sezer Umran. "Preparation And Characterization Of Biodegradable Composite Systems As Hard Tissue Supports: Bone Fillers, Bone Regeneration Membranes And Scaffolds." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614191/index.pdf.

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In tissue engineering applications, use of biodegradable and biocompatible materials are essential. As the tissue regenerate itself on the material surface, the material degrades with enzymatic or hydrolytic reactions. After a certain time, natural tissue takes the place of the artificial support. Poly(&epsilon<br>-caprolactone) (PCL) is one of the preferable polymers used in the restoration of the bone defects due to its desirable mechanical properties and biocompatibility. Addition of inorganic calcium phosphate particles in PCL structures can improve the mechanical properties as well as ost

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Liisanantti, J. (Janne). "Acute drug poisoning: outcome and factors affecting outcome." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2012. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514298080.

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Abstract Patients with acute drug poisonings are common in emergency departments and hospitals. Patients typically ingest medical products, most commonly psychotropic drugs that lead to intoxication. The outcome is usually good and hospital stays are short, even among patients requiring intensive care. Complications such as aspiration pneumonia can prolong hospital stays. Acute mortality is low (usually less than 5%) but repetition of self-harm is common and long-term mortality is high. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of drug poisoned patients and the factors associated with

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Campbell, Lea. "Chemical intent: Imagining the drug using client and the human service worker in harm minimisation policy." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2007. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/2b851b7213687eacbeefdc0cca979cfab7c3fa4b70f237df6de41ae8461e0d14/1516306/64812_downloaded_stream_37.pdf.

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This thesis is based on an Australian Research Council funded research grant. Fifty-one qualitative interviews were conducted with human service workers to gain an understanding of their interpretations of their clients' 'drug problems' and of their own role, the service system and wider policies. Although harm minimisation has been Australia's official drug policy since 1985, little is known about how harm minimisation is 'enacted' in the helping culture. To date human service workers have not been recognised in their constitutive role in harm minimisation discourse. Whilst a significant part

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Herbert, A. "Risks of future harm in adolescents hospitalised with violent, self-inflicted or drug/alcohol-related injury." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1532701/.

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Background: Information is lacking on the risks of future harm for adolescents hospitalised in England as an emergency with adversity-related injury (violent, self-inflicted, drug/alcohol-related). Evidence is needed on who is most at risk and the types of harm, to inform preventive strategies. Methods: Using Hospital Episode Statistics linked to Office for National Statistics mortality data for England (April 1997-March 2012), I estimated the prevalence of emergency admissions for adversity-related injury among 10-19y olds, and identified risk factors. I examined the risks of death and emerge

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Nichols, Fiona Troup. "Identity, opportunity and hope :an Aboriginal model for alcohol (and other drug) harm prevention and intervention." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2234.

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The fieldwork for this study was conducted in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1997 and 1999. Qualitative and quantitative information provided by 170 Aboriginal participants enabled an exploration of the context and patterns of Aboriginal alcohol use; Aboriginal perceptions of the alcohol issue, existing interventions, research findings, 'culture' and its role in prevention and intervention; and participants' incorporation of these perceptions into an Aboriginal model for alcohol misuse prevention, intervention and evaluation. Findings were based on the results of indivi

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Nichols, Fiona Troup. "Identity, opportunity and hope :an Aboriginal model for alcohol (and other drug) harm prevention and intervention." Curtin University of Technology, National Drug Research Institute, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=14160.

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The fieldwork for this study was conducted in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1997 and 1999. Qualitative and quantitative information provided by 170 Aboriginal participants enabled an exploration of the context and patterns of Aboriginal alcohol use; Aboriginal perceptions of the alcohol issue, existing interventions, research findings, 'culture' and its role in prevention and intervention; and participants' incorporation of these perceptions into an Aboriginal model for alcohol misuse prevention, intervention and evaluation. Findings were based on the results of indivi

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Prestes, TÃlio KÃrcio Arruda. "A histÃria do Homo psicoativus: uma anÃlise arqueogenealÃgica da reduÃÃo de danos." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=19804.

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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior<br>Esta pesquisa objetiva investigar arqueogenealogicamente a formaÃÃo do campo discursivo e prÃtico da ReduÃÃo de Danos, analisando o conjunto de pressupostos, asserÃÃes e naturalizaÃÃes em que essa se apoia para agenciar prÃticas de (auto)governo em relaÃÃo Ãs drogas, bem como os modos de subjetivaÃÃo que sÃo incitados a partir desse autogoverno. Esta investigaÃÃo recorreu a um mapeamento dos enunciados que visam justificar a gestÃo polÃtica e econÃmica da relaÃÃo sujeito-droga atravÃs do âparadigmaâ de ReduÃÃo de Danos, investigand

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Duncan, Tristan K. "Towards an affective harm reduction: an ethnographic account of care, pleasure, and atmosphere within a German drug consumption room." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/395554.

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This thesis presents an analysis of the embodied, messy, and situated taking place of a drug consumption room in Frankfurt, Germany. My analysis is grounded in an immersive ethnographic engagement with the everyday operations of this consumption room and a sense that much of the complex detail of ‘what happens’ within these sites remains under-theorised and under-explored. I argue that a prevailing interest in quantifying the efficacy of consumption room interventions has left considerable gaps in our understanding of how these sites work and how they are embodied, negotiated, and constituted

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Palmateer, Norah E. "Determining the effectiveness of harm reduction interventions in the prevention of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs in Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5234/.

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The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is highly prevalent among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Scotland and the large majority of new HCV infections occurring in Scotland are within this population group. Harm reduction interventions, mainly sterile injecting equipment provision (IEP) and opioid substitution treatment (OST), to prevent the transmission of blood-borne viruses among PWID, were implemented in Scotland in the late 1980s/early 1990s. More recently, government policy initiatives, particularly the Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland, have stipulated the scale-up of these interventions. The

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