Abstract Background and Aims Supervised consumption sites (SCS) operate in more than 10 countries. SCS have mostly emerged as a bottom‐up response to crises, first to HIV/AIDS …
J Cawley, CJ Ruhm - Handbook of health economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use …
J Amin, MG Law, M Bartlett, JM Kaldor, GJ Dore - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
Background Hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infections are common causes of death related to liver disease. In this large study, we aimed to investigate all cause mortality of the viruses …
C Dobkin, N Nicosia - American Economic Review, 2009 - aeaweb.org
In mid-1995, a government effort to reduce the supply of methamphetamine precursors successfully disrupted the methamphetamine market and interrupted a trajectory of …
Enforcement against drug selling remains the principal tool of drug control in the United States and many other countries. Though the risk of incarceration for a drug dealer has risen …
P Anderson - Drug and alcohol review, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Humans have always used drugs, probably as part of their evolutionary and nutritional heritage. However, this previous biological adaptation is unlikely to be so in the modern …
Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on …
D Ciccarone - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Heroin coming into the United States historically comes from three widely dispersed geographical regions: Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia and Mexico. A fourth …