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Punishment for Drug Offenses in Russia

Punishment for Drug Offenses in Russia"Anti-drug legislation. 95% of all drug crimes registered in Russia in 2013–2014 were prosecuted under articles 228 and 228.1 of its Criminal Code. The severity of...

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Overdose Prevention Centers, Crime, and Public Order

Overdose Prevention Centers, Crime, and Public Order"Results  No significant changes were detected in violent crimes or property crimes recorded by police, 911 calls for crime or medical incidents, or...

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Public Health Crisis from Acute Drug Toxicity Fatalities

Public Health Crisis from Acute Drug Toxicity Fatalities "Since the Early 2000s, Canada and the United States have been experiencing an unprecedented public health crisis from acute drug toxicity...

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Development of Prescribed Safer Supply in Canada

Development of Prescribed Safer Supply in Canada"The extremely potent and toxic nature of ISOs [Illicit/Synthetic Opioids] has rendered them the primary cause of overdose fatalities while consequently...

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Clinical Decision Support Tools and Pain Management

Clinical Decision Support Tools and Pain Management"Despite reassurances brought by the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in Ruan v. US,13 many clinicians have abruptly reduced or discontinued prescription...

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Concerns Regarding Unregulated Clinical Decision Support Software

Concerns Regarding Unregulated Clinical Decision Support Software"While we do not know exactly which data elements are included in NarxCare, evidence suggests the algorithm differentially identifies...

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Use of Prescription Fentanyl and Illegally Made Fentanyl in the US According...

Use of Prescription Fentanyl and Illegally Made Fentanyl in the US According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health"Among people aged 12 or older in 2022, 0.4 percent (or 991,000 people) misused...

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Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Prior to Fatal Overdoses and...

Receipt of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Prior to Fatal Overdoses and Comparison to No Treatment"The findings revealed that exposures to MOUD, even if not continued throughout the six-month exposure...

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Rest In Power: Kevin B. Zeese, 1955-2020

Rest In Power: Kevin B. Zeese, 1955-2020We are sad to report that the co-founder and President of Common Sense for Drug Policy, Kevin B. Zeese, passed away on September Fifth, 2020. He is sorely...

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Rest In Power: Kevin B. Zeese, 1955-2020

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People Incarcerated in the US

People Incarcerated in the US"ƒ The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 at yearend 2022, a 2% increase from yearend 2021 (1,205,100)."ƒ The number of females in state or federal prison increased...

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Total Adult Community Supervision Population in the US

Total Adult Community Supervision Population in the US"From yearend 2011 to yearend 2021, the total adult community supervision population fell 22%, from 4,818,300 to 3,745,000 (table 1). Most of this...

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The Illegal Drug Trade on the Dark Web

The Illegal Drug Trade on the Dark Web"The Dark Web is a subsection of the internet that has become a hub for illicit activities, such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapons trading. The...

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Changes in Dark Web Drug Markets

Changes in Dark Web Drug Markets"Descriptive analysis of the data collected through both the literature review and data scraping on the Dark Web indicated varying periods of volatility in the...

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Dark Web and the Street Drug Market

Dark Web and the Street Drug Market"Highly anonymized, elusive, and unregulated, the Dark Web is an ideal landscape for vendors selling illicit substances. The substances, in addition to the markets...

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Drug Policies and the Dark Web

Drug Policies and the Dark Web"The increasing availability of potent substances such as opioids on the Dark Web indicates that the current drug policies are ineffective. Criminalizing drug use...

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Estimated Size of Drug Markets on the Dark Web

Estimated Size of Drug Markets on the Dark Web"An Internet survey conducted simultaneously in 10 European Union countries in the period 2017–2018 among some 20,000 Internet-using drug consumers,15...

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Drugs and Social Media

Drugs and Social Media"End users seem to be buying their drugs on the dark web to a lesser extent than in previous years.28 Qualitative information provided by people who use social media suggests that...

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Alcohol Use and Mortality

Alcohol Use and Mortality"In fully adjusted, prespecified models that accounted for effects of sampling, between-study variation, and potential confounding from former drinker bias and other...

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Benzodiazepines in the EU

Benzodiazepines in the EU"Non-controlled and new benzodiazepines also continued to be available in some European countries but, again, current monitoring approaches make it difficult to comment on the...

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