The current provision of sterile injecting equipment as part of public health initiatives is suboptimal. Although some needle and...doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.08.009Samiran PandaMuniratninam Suresh KumarElsevier B.V.The International journal on drug policy...
JAKARTA, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's national narcotics agency (BNN) has arrested a foreign pilot for alleged drug possession and use on a tourist resort at island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara province. The pilot is an India national and works for the budget Lion Air airline, Head...
History of cannabis use and regulation Cannabis is an ancient plant in terms of use, having been known in central Asia and China as early as 3000 bce and in India and the Middle East shortly thereafter. Its introduction to Europe and the Western Hemisphere was probably by way of Africa. Hi...
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Potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly patients: A study of prevalence and predictors in two teaching hospitals. Background: Geriatrics is an emerging clinical specialty in India. Information about the appropriateness of prescription medication use among the elderly i... Harugeri,A.,Joseph...
In 1990 in India the nongovernmental organization Sharan conducted a survey in a Delhi slum to determine the extent of needle use and level of awareness about HIV among drug users. Many drug users had switched from heroin to the less expensive drug buprenorphine because they believed it would he...
Though there has been a wide range in the estimated size of the IDU population in India due to use of different estimation techniques, it has been suggested that up to 1.1 million IDUs [1, 4] may reside in India. In the early years of the epidemic, HIV among IDUs in India was ...
“No one ever wants to stop partying, stop drinking, once you’ve had a few glasses of champagne in you,” she said. A spokesman for Gaetz did not respond directly to CNN’s request for comment but challenged the use of anonymous sources. According to people familiar with the investiga...
Keywords: social stigma; women; drug use; addiction treatment 1. Introduction Indications of psychoactive substance use between men and women are increasingly equalizing, and helping women suffering from substance abuse is a significant challenge for today’s social and treatment services. In the 1980...
Drugs such as amphetamine are for the most part utilized in unambiguous districts such as Goa and Ahmedabad in India [2]. A new report shows that medication use in India continues to develop quickly, and all the more shockingly, heroin has supplanted normal opium [3,4,5]. Most artificial ...