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Opium and China are synonymous, yet historians have so far failed to answer one key question: why was opium rather than cannabis or coffee so eagerly consumed? This article is a preliminary exploration of the cultural significance and social uses of narcotics from the sixteenth to the...
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Drug addiction reflects abnormal operation of normal neural circuitry. More than physical dependence, addiction … growing biological understanding of addiction, it is critical for scientists to play an active role in drug policy because, as … strategies for a rational, customized approach to drug addiction …
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Drug traffickers sometimes share profits peacefully. Other times they fight. We propose a model to investigate this … violence in drug war, which is less studied than interstate or civil war but often as deadly …
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Adverse drug reaction (ADR) is widely concerned for public health issue. In this study we propose an original approach … to detect the ADRs using feature matrix and feature selection. The experiments are carried out on the drug Aspirin. Major … side effects for the drug are detected and better performance is achieved compared to other computerized methods. The …
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We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large … candidate’s party barely lost the elections. Challenger cartels in the drug market leapfrog incumbent drug cartels when entering …
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Over the last few years, marijuana has become legally available for recreational use to roughly a quarter of Americans. Policy makers have long expressed concerns about the substantial external costs of alcohol, and similar costs could come with the liberalization of marijuana policy. Indeed,...
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Marijuana is partially prohibited: though banned federally, it will soon be available to almost 1 in 4 U.S. adults under state statutes. A chief concern among policy makers is marijuana trafficking from states with legal markets elsewhere. We measure trafficking with a natural experiment. Oregon...
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the outcomes considered are: youth marijuana use, alcohol consumption, the abuse of prescription opioids, traffic … mortality involving prescription opioids, the effect of legalizing medical marijuana has proven more difficult to gauge and, as …
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the outcomes considered are: youth marijuana use, alcohol consumption, the abuse of prescription opioids, traffic … mortality involving prescription opioids, the effect of legalizing medical marijuana has proven more difficult to gauge and, as …
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