n August, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter to the editor by Boyer, Shannon and Hibberd entitled " Web Sites with Misinformation about Illicit Drugs ". 1 In this article, Boyer et al. criticize government websites for not competing successfully with " partisan " drug information web sites, name sites they consider partisan, and offer specific criticism of information found ...

The European Union (EU) has 25 member-states and 455 million inhabitants. Statistics on traffic accidents in the EU show that more than 45,000 people are killed annually, including 5200 in France. At the same time, nearly two million persons in the EU require medical treatment for traffic-accident-related injuries, including 109,000 in France. In addition, traffic accidents are the major cause ...

The occurrence of 25 drug target residues (illicit drugs or pharmaceutically active compounds) was investigated during 85 consecutive days in the influents of a wastewater treatment plant in the Region Centre-Val de Loire, France. This long tracking period allowed a better understanding of the patterns affecting the occurrence of this type of contaminants. Among them, 2 were never detected (i.e...

Data on illicit drug purity and prices are invaluable but challenging. Academic purists argue they are unsuitable for economic analysis [Manski, C.F., Pepper, J.V., Petrie, C.V., 2001. Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us. National Academy Press, Washington, DC], but in practice they are used frequently [ONDCP, 2001a. What America's Users Spend on Ill...

The abuse of illicit drugs has received worldwide attention due to their significant adverse impacts on human and the environment. The aim of the present work was to determine the degradation pattern of certain compounds (associated with the clandestine manufacture of illicit drugs) in soil. The target compounds include parent drug (methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)),...

A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the prenatal abuse of licit and illicit drugs is one book that we really recommend you to read, t...

1. The ultimate goal of both supply and demand reduction strategies is the same: to minimize or eliminate the use and abuse of illicit drugs. If that goal is attained, the development of substance use disorders and the health and social problems associated with them will also be reduced. Since the supply of and demand for illicit drugs are inextricably connected, programmes aimed at reducing th...