All Resources for 'Justice Systems'

Drug-Induced Prolonged Corrected QT Interval in Patients with Methadone and Opium Overdose

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

Abstract

Background

Iran is a country with the highest rate of opioid addiction in the world. The most commonly used opioid in Iran is opium, and methadone is in second place. The trend of drug use has changed from opium to methadone from...

Book Unveiling Ceremony of 'The Known and Unknowns of Drug Dependence'

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family

Drug use has been identified as one of the ominous problems that the society faces nowadays. Every drug dependent person has different and complex difficulties to go through in the process of recovering from such harmful habit. Person...

A Rapid Systematic Review of What We Know about Alcohol Use Disorders and Brief Interventions in the Criminal Justice System

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Law
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence of alcohol use disorders within the different stages of the criminal justice system in the UK. Furthermore it reviewed the worldwide evidence of alcohol brief interventions...

Magnitude of Substance Use in India

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Book
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Policy
Ethics
Data
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
The National Survey assesses the extent and patterns of substance use in India.

Marchiafava-Bignami Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family

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INTRODUCTION: Marchiafava-Bignami (MB) is a rare disease characterized by the primary degeneration of the callosum mainly associated with chronic consumption of alcohol. However, this condition can be mistaken for many other...

Summer Institute: Two-Week Creative Writing and Cultural Exchange Program for Participants from Pakistan, India, and the US 

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News
Themes
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

The Summer Institute is a new immersive two-week creative writing and cultural exchange program held in Iowa City, Iowa, a UNESCO City of Literature, for participants age 18-22 from Pakistan, India, and the U.S. 

This program for students...

National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program

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Book
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Policy
Public Health

Wastewater analysis is widely applied internationally as a tool to measure and interpret drug
use within national populations, with the current national program in Australia representing world best practice. 

The National Wastewater Drug...

Addiction Journal Podcast: March 2019

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Book
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Addiction
Mental Health
Public Health

The latest Addiction Journal Podcast gives listeners a snapshot overview of the research that has been published in the March edition of the Addiction Journal.

PREVALENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF KARACHI, PAKISTAN: AN EVALUATION (Collaboration with Karachi Youth Initiative (KYI) by DFPF)

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family

                                               EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Executive Summary provides an overview of research methods and procedures. Initially, research project was scheduled in short period of time. This research project...