“They Threw Her in with the Prostitutes!”: Negotiating Respectability between the Space of Prison and the Place of Woman in Egypt (1943–1959) by Hannah Elsisi

“…The student demonstrations of 1945-46 presented the semi-colonial Egyptian state with a new and unique problem: up until that point women prisoners were thought of only as common criminals – drug-dealers, prostitutes (sic) and murderers. There was no cultural, or indeed logistical and infrastructural possibility for incarcerating a middle-class female revolutionary. …”
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Teungku Dayah Agency and Religious Social Capital on Drug Eradication in Aceh, Indonesia by Nirzalin Nirzalin, Yogi Febriandi

“…This study provides a quite different view from most scholars who work for combating drug dealers by engaging participation of religious communities in rural society. …”
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RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CRIMINAL SANCTION POLICY AND ACTION (DOUBLE TRACK SYSTEM) IN LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR NARCOTIC CRIME PREVENTION REFFERED TO RELIGIOUS JUSTICE by Carto Nuryanto

“…But two decades later, Indonesia has become a lucrative market for the drug dealers. Even touted to be producers of goods that can make sense of hovering it. …”
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Violência, crime e polícia: o que os favelados dizem quando falam desses temas? Violence, crime and police: what do people who live in slums say when they talk about these subjects... by Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva, Márcia Pereira Leite

“…On the one hand, there are institutional police practices (the famous "operations" - recurrent raids on favelas in order to fight drug dealers) and the arbitrariness of agents' regular behavior, both of which are felt to be almost completely unpredictable. …”
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Spontaneous harm reduction: a barrier for substance-dependent individuals seeking treatment? by Bruno José Barcellos Fontanella, Egberto Ribeiro Turato

“…RESULTS: Four types of spontaneous harm reduction measures were identified, according to the subjective logic of each participant: having some periods at rest (not using and recovering from adverse effects); caretaking by close acquaintances (relatives, partners, drug dealers and alcoholic beverage sellers); selectivity regarding substance source, type and means of administration; establishing "healthy" limits of ingestion. …”
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A decade of analysis of illicit street cocaine in Chile by Boris E. Duffau, Sonia A. Rojas, Salvador A. Ayala

“…Determinate purity and adulteration profile of cocaine is very useful from the point of view of toxicology, public health, trends of misuse and for police enforcement, in order to establish the routes of drugs dealers. Aims: To evaluate the purity profile of cocaine hydrochloride in Chile over 10 years; classify main adulterants and diluents added to cocaine, for this purpose we used collected data from all tested samples since 2006 to 2016. …”
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ANALYSIS OF DRUGS AND CERTAIN MEDICINES CIRCULATION THROUGH ONLINE MEDIA by Evita Ariestiana

“…Fourth, Lack of Facilities and Infrastructure such as transportation equipment, inadequate communication to pursue and arrest groups of drug dealers in online media. Deal with potent drugs and certain drugs that circulate through online media are efforts by Non-Penal (preventive) and Penal (repressive). …”
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A espacialização da violência criminal na cidade de Santa Maria, RS by Eliane Melara

“…Our results indicate that the criminal occurrences related to drug traffic concentrate in an area where the levels of income and education are low. However, many drug dealers and consumers are residents of other parts of the city and are characterized by belonging to different social classes, even if this information does not appear very frequently in the statistics. …”
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Social-structural contexts of needle and syringe sharing behaviours of HIV-positive injecting drug users in Manipur, India: a mixed methods investigation by Shunmugam Murali, Newman Peter A, Chakrapani Venkatesan, Dubrow Robert

“…A variety of social-structural contextual factors influenced individual risk behaviours: barriers to carrying sterile needles/syringes due to fear of harassment by police and "anti-drug" organizations; lack of sterile needles/syringes in drug dealers' locales; limited access to pharmacy-sold needles/syringes; inadequate coverage by needle and syringe programmes (NSPs); non-availability of sterile needles/syringes in prisons; and withdrawal symptoms superseding concern for health. …”
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Aquisição de drogas: um estudo entre estudantes brasileiros Drug acquisition: a study among Brazilian students by Marília Saldanha da Fonseca

“…Results evinced that friends are ranked first followed by drug dealers, pharmacies and family. The study pinpoints the need that schools direct their efforts toward preventive actions to reduce the risk of drug abuse among students through the adoption of measures aimed at providing health education and the enhancement of quality of life. …”
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Occupational roles and risks of community-embedded peer educators providing HIV, hepatitis C and harm reduction services to persons who inject drugs in Nairobi, Kenya by Linnet N. Masese, Natasha T. Ludwig-Barron, Loice Mbogo, Brandon L. Guthrie, Helgar Musyoki, David Bukusi, William Sinkele, Esther Gitau, Carey Farquhar, Aliza Monroe-Wise

“…Occupational health risks included harassment by police and drug dealers, needle sticks, and close proximity to drug use environments that could prompt drug relapse. …”
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Occupational roles and risks of community-embedded peer educators providing HIV, hepatitis C and harm reduction services to persons who inject drugs in Nairobi, Kenya. by Linnet N Masese, Natasha T Ludwig-Barron, Loice Mbogo, Brandon L Guthrie, Helgar Musyoki, David Bukusi, William Sinkele, Esther Gitau, Carey Farquhar, Aliza Monroe-Wise

“…Occupational health risks included harassment by police and drug dealers, needle sticks, and close proximity to drug use environments that could prompt drug relapse. …”
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“2.5 g, I could do that before noon”: a qualitative study on people who use drugs’ perspectives on the impacts of British Columbia’s decriminalization of illegal drugs threshold li... by Farihah Ali, Cayley Russell, Alissa Greer, Matthew Bonn, Daniel Werb, Jürgen Rehm

“…Threshold quantities are commonly included in decriminalization policies and justified within law enforcement systems to delineate personal use among people who use drugs versus drug dealers who are carrying for trafficking purposes. …”
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Per una critica di genere all’idea di sicurezza by Franca Garreffa

“…Public and political authorities (at least in Italy) incline to charge a list of external enemies (nomads, immigrants, terrorists, junkies, prostitutes, drug dealers) for unsecuring the citizens because of a real or supposed increase of crimes due to ‘deviant subjects’. …”
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Political economy, public policy, power structures, and human rights violations : the case of internally displaced persons in Colombia between 1993 and 2010 by Durán Ortiz, Juan Pablo

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A preliminary survey of major diseases of ruminants and management practices in Western Tigray province, northern Ethiopia by Getachew Mebrahtu Welay, Dawit Gebremichael Tedla, Gebreyohans Gebru Teklu, Shishay Kahsay Weldearegay, Mearg Belay Shibeshi, Haftom Hadush Kidane, Berhe Beyene Gebrezgiabher, Teklehaymanot Huluf Abraha

“…Thirty-four (33.9%) of the respondents got veterinary access from illegal drug dealers in mini shops or market. Among the major disease constraints identified; Tick infestation (89.3%), lice infestation (68.6%) mange mite infestation (77.7%) lumpy skin disease (LSD) (42.1%), trypanasomiasis (62.8%) bovine pasteurellosis (52.1) mastitis (13.2%), sheep and goat pox (15.7), abortion (19.0%), dystocia (24.8%), retained fetal membrane (25.6%), prolapsed uterus (13.2%) delayed heat period (38.8%) were most endemic ailments directly affecting livestock production and farmers livelihood. …”
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Apple, condom, and cocaine – body stuffing in prison: a case report by Benedicte Jalbert, Nguyen Toan Tran, Stephan von Düring, Pierre-Alexandre Poletti, Ian Fournier, Catherine Hafner, Celestine Dubost, Laurent Gétaz, Hans Wolff

“…Abstract Background Drug dealers and drug users resort to body stuffing to hastily conceal illicit drugs by ingesting their drug packets. …”
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Movement and Death: Illicit Drug Markets in the Cities of São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro by Daniel Veloso Hirata, Carolina Cristoph Grillo

“…This comparison focuses on the intersection of three dimensions: The marketplaces of drug retail sales; the dynamics of criminal collectives; and the different power dynamics among drug dealers and forces of order.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>O presente artigo reflete sobre a relação entre mercado ilegal de drogas e violência, a partir da comparação do mercado varejista de drogas em favelas e bairros de periferias das cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Low Impact, Wrong Direction: Why São Paulo State Drug Policy Is Inefficient and Ineffective by Leonardo de Carvalho Silva, Bruno Langeani

“…By comparing those data, we show police resources are largely used in incidents that have no impact on the drug trafficking chain and in which only drug users and small drug dealers are charged.</p><p> </p><p>Este artigo deriva da pesquisa “Apreensões de drogas no estado de São Paulo: Um raio-x das apreensões de drogas segundo ocorrências e massa”, realizada pelo Instituto Sou da Paz para fomentar a discussão sobre a política de drogas no Brasil. …”
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A Farmer Becoming a Quasi-doctor: The and Rural Healthcare from the 1960s to the 1980s by Seungmann PARK

“…When people were sick, they bought Western drugs from pharmacies, drug dealers, and sometimes quacks. The knowledge of Western medicine also spread widely, with family medical books such as Million People’s Medicine as the medium. …”
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