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A systematic review of methamphetamine precursor regulations

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

ABSTRACT Aims  To assess the effectiveness of methamphetamine precursor regulations in reducing illicit methamphetamine supply and use. Methods  A systematic review of 12 databases was used to identify studies that had evaluated the impact of methamphetamine precursor regulations on methamphetamine supply and/or use.

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Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site Leads To 35 Percent Reduction In Overdose Deaths

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Illicit drug overdose deaths in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside dropped by 35 per cent after the establishment of Insite, North America’s first supervised injection facility, according a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS…

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CT Best At Uncovering Drug Mule Payload

Thursday, December 2, 2010

According to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the best way to detect cocaine in the body of a human drug courier, known as a mule, is through computed tomography (CT). “Cocaine from South America is making its way to Europe through Africa,” said Patricia Flach, M.D…

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An appeal to humanity: legal victory in favour of North America’s only supervised injection facility: Insite

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Canada’s federal government has once again failed to shut North America’s only authorized supervised injection facility, Insite.

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Mexico’s methamphetamine precursor chemical interventions: impacts on drug treatment admissions

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Aims To help counter problems related to methamphetamine, Mexico has implemented interventions targeting pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, the precursor chemicals commonly used in the drug’s synthesis. This study examines whether the interventions impacted methamphetamine treatment admissions[mdash]an indicator of methamphetamine consequences.Design Quasi-experiment: autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)-based intervention time[ndash]series analysis

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Non-fatal overdose among a cohort of active injection drug users recruited from a supervised injection facility.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

We examined recent non-fatal overdose experiences among participants enrolled in a prospective study of IDU recruited from within North America’s first medically supervised safer injecting facility. Correlates of recent non-fatal overdoses were identified using generalized estimating equations (GEE).

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Non-fatal overdose among a cohort of active injection drug users recruited from a supervised injection facility.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

We examined recent non-fatal overdose experiences among participants enrolled in a prospective study of IDU recruited from within North America’s first medically supervised safer injecting facility. Correlates of recent non-fatal overdoses were identified using generalized estimating equations (GEE)

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