Lamonica, Aukje K Boeri, Miriam Turner, Jeffrey
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The International journal on drug policy
Opioid overdoses are primarily discussed by the pharmacological properties of the drugs used. Research shows that other factors such as the social/physical environment and the mental/emotional states can have an impact on overdose events. Ataiants and colleagues (2020) used Zinberg's "drug, set, and setting" framework to identify circumstances surr...
Collins, John
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The International journal on drug policy
This article examines the recent trends in international, in particular multilateral, drug policy and the implications of these changes for shifting alignments and coalitions of actors and stakeholders. It places these changes in the context of the system's historical developments and applies previously unutilised analyses of other international go...
Karlsson, Niklas Kåberg, Martin Berglund, Torsten Hammarberg, Anders Widman, Linnea Ekström, Anna Mia
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The International journal on drug policy
Needle exchange programs (NEP) are important in reducing risk behaviours among people who inject drugs (PWID), also exposed to HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) through injecting drug use (IDU). Women (WWID) compared to men who inject drugs (MWID), are particularly vulnerable with complex needs, however less is known about their risk determinants and NEP o...
Wennberg, Erica Lasry, Ariane Windle, Sarah B Filion, Kristian B Thombs, Brett D Gore, Genevieve Fischer, Benedikt Eisenberg, Mark J
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The International journal on drug policy
Indigenous Canadians may be at an increased risk of non-medical cannabis use. The aim of this review was to synthesize the prevalence of non-medical cannabis use and its associated factors among Indigenous Canadians. We systematically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Scopus from inception to January 29th, 2020 for publications reportin...
Hunter, Mark
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The International journal on drug policy
This article addresses the dramatic rise in the illicit use of Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication, among South African school learners from roughly the mid 2010s. Based on interviews conducted in secondary schools in Durban, I argue for the importance of locating the benzodiazepine in relation to other known drugs that include cannabis, heroin, alco...
Payne, Jason L Langfield, Cameron T
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The International journal on drug policy
There has long been an international interest in the eradication of drug markets-particularly heroin markets-given their documented connection to the deterioration of local community and social amenity. Recent interest in focused drug law enforcement strategies has reinvigorated debate about the potential for deterrence; however, there exists no la...
Cano, Manuel Gelpí-Acosta, Camila
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The International journal on drug policy
This study compared drug overdose mortality rates in Puerto Rican-heritage and Non-Hispanic (NH) White individuals in the United States (US), examining time trends and recent variation by age, sex, state of residence, and drugs involved in overdose. Death certificate data from the National Center for Health Statistics, as well as American Community...
Raubenheimer, Jacques Eugene Riordan, Benjamin C Merrill, Jennifer E Winter, Taylor Ward, Rose Marie Scarf, Damian Buckley, Nicholas A
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The International journal on drug policy
New Zealand held a referendum on the legalisation of recreational cannabis in October 2020. Polls preceding the referendum provided contrasting outcomes. We investigated whether internet search data from Google Trends could provide an alternative estimate of the referendum outcome. We assessed various methods for accessing Google Trends data, downl...
Childs, E Biello, K B Valente, P K Salhaney, P Biancarelli, D L Olson, J Earlywine, J J Marshall, B D L Bazzi, A R
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The International journal on drug policy
Harm reduction services, which typically provide overdose education and prevention with distribution of naloxone and other supplies related to safer drug use, help reduce opioid-related overdose and infectious disease transmission. However, structural stigma and the ongoing criminalization of drug use have limited the expansion of harm reduction se...
Bergh, Marianne Skov-Skov Øiestad, Åse Marit Leere Baumann, Michael H Bogen, Inger Lise
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The International journal on drug policy
Urine fentanyl test strips have been employed to check street drugs for fentanyl and fentanyl analogue contamination, but there is limited evidence for the applicability of fentanyl strips for this purpose. We examined the ability of four commercially-available fentanyl test strips to detect fentanyl and a range of fentanyl analogues currently on t...
