EMCDDA Online
Author: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 3
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the data available from the EMCDDA's web site.
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Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention
Author: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9789291684991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternet-based Drug Treatment Interventions
Author: Hans-Peter Tossmann
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789291683482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecoge: 1. Background - 2 Methods - 3. Findings - 4:. Outline of European Internet-based DTIs - 5. Discussion - 6. Future of Internet-based DTIs in the European Union.
European Drug Prevention Quality Standards
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789291684878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrugs and Culture
Author: Geoffrey Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-13
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1317147731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent approaches to drugs tend to be determined by medical and criminal visions that emerged over a century ago; the concepts of addiction, on the one hand, and drug control on the other, having imposed themselves as the unquestionable central notions surrounding drug issues and discourses. Pathologization and criminalization are the dominant perspectives on psychoactive drugs, and it is difficult to describe drug consumption in any terms other than those of medicine, or to conceive of regulation except in terms of control and eradication. Drugs and Culture presents other voices and understandings of drug issues, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular social groups; the social dynamics involved in our coming to think of these phenomena as we do; and the factors that determine the political and policy responses to drug use. Adopting approaches from anthropology, sociology, history, political science and geopolitics to challenge the prevailing pathologization and criminalization of drug use, this book provides international and comparative perspectives on drug research, based on the latest research in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Hong Kong.
Internet-Based Drug Treatment Interventions
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783843327701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegulating Cannabis
Author: Tom Decorte
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 1480861448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the legalization of recreational cannabis markets in Uruguay, Canada, and several U.S. states, a breakthrough in conventional cannabis policy is emerging. But legalization is not a binary choice between prohibition and some regulated commercial model (like alcohol). A commercial market is just one of many ways to implement legalizationand moving directly from prohibition to commercial legalization leaps from one extreme to the other. Tom Decorte, a criminologist and anthropologist at Ghent University (Belgium), who has published numerous articles on substance use, cannabis markets, and local drug monitoring systems, argues that most of us are bypassing other, safer forms of legalization, including the nonprofit model. He explores topics such as: Why we need to consider regulation of cannabis markets. How local authorities and grassroots movements are advocating change. How to best design and implement approaches to legalization. Join the author as he examines international regulatory controls over cannabis possession, use, and cultivationas well as a framework for regulating the cannabis market via a nonprofit corporate model that promotes public health and safety over profits
Harm Reduction : Evidence, Impacts and Challenges
Author: Tim Rhodes (Medical sociologist)
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Published: 2010
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789291685684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe EMCDDA's 10th scientific monograph, entitled Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges provides a comprehensive overview of the harm reduction field. Part I of the monograph looks back at the emergence of harm reduction approaches and their diffusion, and explores the concept from different perspectives, including international organisations, academic researchers and drug users. Part II is dedicated to current evidence and impacts of harm reduction and illustrates how the concept has broadened to cover a wide range of behaviours and harms. Part III addresses the current challenges and innovations in the field. The core audience of the monograph comprises policymakers, healthcare professionals working with drug users, as well as the wider interested public -- EU Bookshop.
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0309459575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Author: Paul I. Dargan
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2021-09-06
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 0128190302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNovel Psychoactive Substances: Classification, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Second Edition provides readers with a comprehensive examination on the classification, detection, supply and availability of novel psychoactive substances, otherwise known as "legal highs." The book covers individual classes of novel psychoactive substances that have recently emerged onto the recreational drug scene and provides an overview of the pharmacology of the substance and a discussion of their associated acute and chronic harm and toxicity. This second edition addresses drugs new to the scene, with completely updated and revised chapters. Written by international experts in the field, this multi-authored book is an essential reference for scientists, clinicians, academics, and regulatory and law enforcement professionals. Includes chapters written by international experts in the field Presents a comprehensive overview on the classification, detection, availability and supply of novel psychoactive substances, in addition to the pharmacology and toxicology associated with the substance Offers a single source for all interested parties working in this area, including scientists, academics, clinicians, law enforcement and regulatory agencies Provides a full treatment of novel psychoactive substances that have recently emerged onto the recreational drug scene, including amphetamines and the synthetic cannabinoid receptors in ‘spice’ and ‘K2’
