Preference of Methods and Media for Promotion of Drug Abuse Prevention According to the Point of View of Students and Parents in Bima by Ade Wulandari, Nani Nurhaeni, Martiningsih Martiningsih, Ahmad Ahmad

“…Bima region as a port city that connects Sumbawa island with a number of large islands in Indonesia has become a risk factor for illicit drug trafficking. Socialization on the dangers of drug abuse that has been carried out in the school environment has a number of limitations, especially in terms of time, methods, and media as well as the number of target audiences that are covered by the activity. …”
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“The Boys Are Coming to Town”: Youth, Armed Conflict and Urban Violence in Developing Countries by Krijn Peters, Josjah Betina Kunkeler

“…Extrapolating the experience of Latin American cities plagued by drug violence, the recent and significant increase in drug trafficking on the West African seaboard could mark the beginning of another armed conflict with high youth involvement, this time playing out in urban settings.…”
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A política antidrogas brasileira: velhos dilemas Brazil's anti-drugs policies: old dilemmas by Maria Lúcia Teixeira Garcia, Fabíola Xavier Leal, Cassiane Cominoti Abreu

“…<br>The current debate in relation to drugs has been formed around scientific speeches which tend to configure the issue about drugs either as a public security matter (related to the drug trafficking and the offer repression) or as a public health matter (related to demand repression on one hand and harm reduction on the other). …”
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La Justicia Criminal en América Latina y el Narcotráfico: La orbservación de los Derechos Humanos en la búsqueda de la Ley y el Orden by Migdalia de JESÚS TORRES

“…Another important aspect relates to how the sovereignty of Latin American countries has been affected by the implementation of anti-drug laws by the United States a hegemonic policy that has established sanctions, treaties and annual support-incentives to wage an international fight against drug trafficking in Latin America.</p>…”
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La Justicia Criminal en América Latina y el Narcotráfico: La orbservación de los Derechos Humanos en la búsqueda de la Ley y el Orden by Migdalia de JESÚS TORRES

“…Another important aspect relates to how the sovereignty of Latin American countries has been affected by the implementation of anti-drug laws by the United States a hegemonic policy that has established sanctions, treaties and annual support-incentives to wage an international fight against drug trafficking in Latin America.</p>…”
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Profiling of illicit cannabis samples using high performance liquid chromatography and multivariate analysis by Muniandy, Yuvendran

“…Physical and chemical properties of a seized drug samples can be accumulated, and provides intelligence information to combat drug trafficking and abuse. The purpose of this study was to profile drugs, especially illicit cannabis samples using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and multivariate analysis. …”
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Frozen fish and (pseudo)cocaine? A case report by Rafael Scorsatto Ortiz, Maíra Kerpel dos Santos, Renata Pereira Limberger, Fabiano Barreto

“…Keywords: Cocaine, Scott test, LC–MS/MS, Frozen fish, Drug-trafficking…”
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Acute Poisoning in Elderly; a Five-Year Study (2008-2013) in Hamadan, Iran by Saeed Afzali, Mohammad Ali Seifrabiei, Seyed Kazem Taheri, Jahangir Pourabdollah

“…Conclusion: Deliberate self-harm and poisoning with opioids especially methadone showed a high prevalence in elderly poisoned patients in Hamadan, Iran.  It seems that drug trafficking control, addiction rehabilitation therapies and suicide prevention programs for elderly can be helpful in poisoning reduction in this age group in this part of the country.…”
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Genetic diversity and population structure of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the Peruvian jungle by Maxy B. De los Santos, Ivonne Melissa Ramírez, Jorge E. Rodríguez, Peter Beerli, Hugo O. Valdivia

“…<h4>Background</h4> Human cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis is highly prevalent in the Peruvian jungle, where it affects military forces deployed to fight against drug trafficking and civilian people that migrate from the highland to the lowland jungle for economic activities such as mining, agriculture, construction, and chestnut harvest. …”
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Characterization of T‐DM1‐resistant breast cancer cells by Juliette Sauveur, Louise Conilh, Sabine Beaumel, Kamel Chettab, Lars‐Petter Jordheim, Eva‐Laure Matera, Charles Dumontet

“…These results suggest that some characteristics such as increased baseline aneuploidy and altered intracellular drug trafficking might be involved in resistance to T‐DM1.…”
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Inmates’ empathy: relationship with childhood victimisation by Renata Guarda, Telma C. Almeida

“…Some of the participants were arrested for drug trafficking (n = 24, 24.2%), domestic violence (n = 10, 10.1%), homicide (n = 9, 9.1%), robbery (n = 7, 7.1%), theft (n = 5, 5.1%), and other types of crimes (e.g. kidnapping, attempted murder). …”
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Using Polygraph to Detect Passengers Carrying Illegal Items by Runxin Yu, Runxin Yu, Si Jia Wu, Si Jia Wu, Audrey Huang, Nathan Gold, Huaxiong Huang, Huaxiong Huang, Genyue Fu, Kang Lee

“…The present study examined the effectiveness of a Modified-Comparison Questions Technique, used in conjunction with the polygraph, to differentiate between common travelers, drug traffickers, and terrorists at transportation hubs. …”
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DE-SHADOWING OF THE ECONOMY IN THE FIELD OF NON-BANK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS by Volodymyr Buha, Pavlo Svir, Roman Tkachenko

“…The informal economy is characterised by unregulated production of goods and provision of services; the hidden economy is the legal production and sale of unregistered goods and services; the underground (criminal) economy – prohibited activities (corruption, drug trafficking, etc.). Methodology – the article uses general scientific methods of formal logic (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy, abstraction and modeling). …”
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Inteligencia militar en Argentina. Reflexiones desde un archivo naval/ Military intelligence in Argentina. Reflections since a naval archive by María Eva Muzzopappa

“…From this archive, the work deviates the relationship between intelligence practices and the attribution of a “police” role for the Argentine armed forces and retakes the concept of “policing”, which currently alludes to the proposal of intervention of the forces armed in the confrontation of terrorism and drug trafficking, to examine their historical background as a proposal and political practice.…”
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Peculiarities of the Spread of HIV infection among Urban and Rural Residents of the Tyumen Region by E. N. Mel`nikova, A. N. Marchenko

“…The HIV epidemic in the Tyumen region is determined by its economic and geographic location and by the presence of exceptional epidemiologically significant prerequisites for the intensive spread of HIV, in particular, by the routes through which large quantities of drugs are illegally transported (drug trafficking from the northeast).…”
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La extrema izquierda armada colombiana representada en los relatos de ficción de la novela y el cuento, décadas de 1970 y 1990 The Colombian Armed Left-wing Represented in Fictiona... by Dairo Correa Gutiérrez

“…The article seeks to contribute to studies on Literature-Politics relations, which in Colombia today are linked to the construction of the idea of Nation, the Civil Wars of the nineteenth century, the violence of the 50s of the twentieth century and, recently, drug trafficking.…”
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Differential effects of migration and deportation on HIV infection among male and female injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. by Steffanie A Strathdee, Remedios Lozada, Victoria D Ojeda, Robin A Pollini, Kimberly C Brouwer, Alicia Vera, Wayne Cornelius, Lucie Nguyen, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Thomas L Patterson, Proyecto El Cuete

“…HIV prevalence is rising, especially among high risk females in Tijuana, Baja California, a Mexico-US border city situated on major migration and drug trafficking routes. We compared factors associated with HIV infection among male and female injection drug users (IDUs) in Tijuana in an effort to inform HIV prevention and treatment programs. …”
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The Roles and Movements of Actors in the Deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia by Philip M. Fearnside

“…Ulterior motives, such as land speculation and money laundering, also affect this group. Drug trafficking and money laundering represent strong forces in some areas and help spread deforestation where it would be unprofitable based only on the legitimate economy. …”
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Wearable Electrochemical Glove-Based Analytical Device (eGAD) for the Detection of Methamphetamine Employing Silver Nanoparticles by Nigar Anzar, Shariq Suleman, Yashda Singh, Suhel Parvez, Manika Khanuja, Roberto Pilloton, Jagriti Narang

“…Wearable electrochemical drug detection devices possess the potential to function as potent screening instruments in the possession of law enforcement personnel, aiding in the fight against drug trafficking and facilitating forensic investigations conducted on site. …”
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Case report: First criminal conviction of dog fighting in Brazil: an international network organization by Esther Espejo, Alina Galante, Tália Missen Tremori, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Matheus Araujo Laiola, Alexander Welker Biondo, Alexander Welker Biondo, Paulo Maiorka

“…Besides animal cruelty, dog fighting has been controlled mostly by criminal organizations and accompanied by illegal gambling and drug trafficking. While such competitions may be impaired by advances of legislation on animal welfare and media coverage, international organized crime has been migrating to less regulated and enforced countries. …”
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