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"Bath Salt" Ingestion Leading to Severe Intoxication Delirium: Two Cases and a Brief Review of the Emergence of Mephedrone Use.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Conclusions: Challenges and strategies surrounding diagnosis and treatment are described, which may be useful as “bath salt” use becomes more widespread. Scientific Significance: As an emerging trend, bath salt intoxication delirium appears to cause intense psychosis that can be managed with antipsychotic medications.

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Fla.’s Jackson Health System Struggles With Nursing Home And Hospital Losses; Advocates Push Marijuana Cultivation In Calif.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Miami Herald: As the Jackson Health System’s “governing board prepares to vote Monday on a proposed budget for 2011, its two money-losing nursing homes stand as a symbol for the challenges the system faces as it attempts to cut losses.

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2 Programmes Focus On Addiction Awareness And Control

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the study designed the two programmes and examined their effectiveness in helping excessive drinkers reduce their drinking. The AACTP and LEAP programmes address the challenges faced by excessive drinkers, including a preoccupation with drinking made worse by alcohol-related stimuli around them…

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Whither RDS? An investigation of Respondent Driven Sampling as a method of recruiting mainstream marijuana users

Friday, July 9, 2010

Background: An important challenge in conducting social research of specific relevance to harm reduction programs is locating hidden populations of consumers of substances like cannabis who typically report few adverse or unwanted consequences of their use.

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Security, development and human rights: Normative, legal and policy challenges for the international drug control system

Monday, February 1, 2010

Abstract: This commentary addresses some of the challenges posed by the broader normative, legal and policy framework of the United Nations for the international drug control system. The ‘purposes and principles’ of the United Nations are presented and set against the threat based rhetoric of the drug control system and the negative consequences of that system

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Methods for comparing drug policies—The utility of composite Drug Harm Indexes

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Abstract: One of the challenges for drug policy research is being able to compare policy options and outcomes.

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