Marijuana was illegal to possess or sell in California for 103 years. The state first banned it 1913, grouping with opiates and cocaine on a list of prohibited vice drugs adopted six years earlier, meaning that subject the same penalties as these other, far more dangerous, until 1961. Initially framed “Mexican” drug, marijuana prohibition enforcement began periphery Los Angeles older Latino nei...

PURPOSE The findings of previous studies attracted our interest in searching and defining the percentage of deaths from cancer in 'heroin regular addicts' i.e. those who had never stopped taking the drug since they started. METHODS The archives of the Greek Reitox Focal Point of the years 2001 to 2010 were retrospectively searched, focusing on the number of deaths from cancer of the regular h...

It has been noted that many drug addicts relapse to drug use after discharged from successful treatment and rehabilitation programs. Thus it is imperative and timely to address the issues that prompt relapsed addiction. 400 drug addicts on relapse cases were selected from eight drug rehabilitation centres throughout Peninsular Malaysia to examine factors influences the relapsed addiction to dru...

BACKGROUND In New York City (NYC), the annual mortality rate is higher for accidental drug overdoses than for homicides; cocaine and opiates are the drugs most frequently associated with drug overdose deaths. We assessed trends and correlates of cocaine- and opiate-related overdose deaths in NYC during 1990-2000. METHODS Data were collected from the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (O...

introduction: studies have shown that opiates cause disorders in fertilization and accessory reproductive glands in animals. on the other hand studies have shown important role of glycoconjugates in sperm epididymal maturation. lectins can detect glycoconjugates with specific terminal glucose molecules. therefore this study was conducted to assess the possible effects of opiates on these import...


 Objective: To investigate the relationship between social exclusion and relapse tendency of drug addicts, mediating role negative coping style them. Methods: 130 SG addicts were investigated with Social Exclusion Experience Scale, Simple Coping Style Scale (SCSQ) Relapse Tendency (RTQ). Results: (1) styles had significant positive correlation tendency; (2) direct (3) could not only direc...