Epidemiology and medical management of body‐packers in French Guiana between 2010 and 2015 by Clemence Bonnefoy, Mathieu Nacher, Gerald Egmann, Agathe Pastre, Vincent About, Daniel Jeanbourquin, Dominique Louvel, Karim Hamiche, Timothee Bonifay

“…Abstract Background French Guiana is used as a drug trafficking pipeline of cocaine to Europe. The number of arrests for transporting cocaine in corpore has increased exponentially in recent years. …”
Get full text

Predictors of drug and substance abuse among school-going adolescents living in drug hotspot in Malaysia by Ismail, Rozmi, Shafurdin, Nurul Shafini, Shukor, Md Shafiin, Mohammed Nawi, Azmawati, Abdul Manaf, Mohd Rizal, Ibrahim, Norhayati, Mohd Rasdi, Roziah, Lyndon, Novel Anak, Amit, Noh, Hassan, Siti Aishah, Hanafi, Norshafizah, Ibrahim, Fauziah, Nahla, Fathimath, Wahab, Suzaily

“…These areas were identified as having extreme drug-related activities such as drug trafficking and drug-related crimes. According to the literature, several factors influence adolescents to be involved in DSA. …”
Get full text

Forensic profiling of heroin seized from northern region of Malaysia by Yusoff, Mohd Zawawi

“…Hierarchy Cluster Analysis following the FTIR analysis allows the discrimination of drug samples into ten subclusters with the possibility of attributing similar refining process or cutting pattern during drug trafficking. In general, heroin samples seized from central regions of Malaysia gave significantly different profiles, separating them from those obtained in northern region. …”
Get full text

Telenovelas e interpretações do Brasil Soap operas and interpretations of Brazil by Esther Hamburger

“…In 2006, following film approach to poverty and violence, Record network introduces the favela scenario and the threats represented by drug trafficking.…”
Get full text

Social-Cultural Influences and Personality Disorders Favoring Drug Consumption by Oana Chicoș, Domenico Perri, Liliana Capriș, Andra Irina Bulgaru Iliescu, Kantor Cristina

“…Conclusions: As a general conclusion, we can state that presently, illicit drug trafficking and consumption is the most successful business. …”
Get full text

Redefiniendo al Auditor desde la Bioética by Percy Iván Aguilar Argueta

“…Money laundering, drug trafficking, human and organs trafficking, are becoming more common every day and are gaining followers for the conduct of business, including its possible legalization. …”
Get full text

Development of the Brazilian Drug Market Toward Africa: Myths, Evidence and Theoretical Questions by Corentin Cohen

“…I show how these global markets affect the actions of drug traffickers, namely their strategies and use of violence by analyzing the development of maritime trade and the centrality of ports in this economy. …”
Get full text

RUSSIA›S COOPERATION WITH THE COUNTRIES OF POST-SOVIET EURASIA IN THE FIELD OF SECURITY by Sergey Valerievich Bespalov

“…The fight against drug trafficking.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">Work on improving the legal framework of the Treaty on Collective Security Organization should be continued. …”
Get full text

General issues of the exercise of jurisdiction in the process of application of law enforcement measures at sea by A. P. Glazova

“…Currently, states can apply a whole range of law enforcement measures at sea in order to prevent such unlawful phenomena as piracy, slave trade, drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, etc. However, the problem of the exercise of jurisdiction by states within various maritime areas is the main sticking point during the implementation of these measures. …”
Get full text

A Forensic Detection Method for Hallucinogenic Mushrooms via High-Resolution Melting (HRM) Analysis by Xiaochun Zhang, Huan Yu, Qi Yang, Ziwei Wang, Ruocheng Xia, Chong Chen, Yiling Qu, Rui Tan, Yan Shi, Ping Xiang, Suhua Zhang, Chengtao Li

“…Taken together, these results indicate that the HRM method can quickly distinguish the DNA barcoding of <i>Psilocybe cubensis</i> and other fungi, which can be utilized for drug trafficking cases and forensic science.…”
Get full text

Case Report: Don’t chew the fufu: a case report of suspected drug body stuffing [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Naya Jimenez, Nguyen Toan Tran, Pierre-Alexandre Poletti, Alexandra Platon, Francesco Meach, André Juillerat, Laurent Getaz, Hans Wolff

“…Body packing is a technique used in drug trafficking that consists of deliberately ingesting many drug pellets. …”
Get full text

Genetic diversity and drug resistance among newly diagnosed and antiretroviral treatment-naive HIV-infected individuals in western Yunnan: a hot area of viral recombination in Chin... by Chen Min, Ma Yanling, Duan Song, Xing Hui, Yao Shitang, Su Yingzhen, Luo Hongbing, Yang Li, Chen Huichao, Fu Liru, Qu Aijuan, Ou Chin-Yih, Jia Manhong, Lu Lin

“…Due to its geographic location, Dehong contributed greatly in bridging HIV-1 epidemics in Southeast Asia and China through drug trafficking and injection drug use; and also extensively to the HIV genetic diversity in Yunnan and China. …”
Get full text

Consumo frequente de bebidas alcoólicas por adolescentes escolares: estudo de fatores associados Frequent consumption of alcohol by school age adolescents: study of associated fact... by Analy Marquardt de Matos, Rosely Cabral de Carvalho, Maria Conceição Oliveira Costa, Karina Emanuella Peixoto de Souza Gomes, Luciana Maia Santos

“…RESULTS: Frequent alcohol drinking was associated with the male gender; early consumption; little-known sexual partner; problems with other drugs in the family; living with a partner; own income; drug trafficking; consumption with friends, activities at school, motivations (anxiety, excitement/pleasure), and consequences (other drugs, fights, debts in work/school) CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge of personal, interpersonal, family and environmental factors associated with alcohol use in adolescents should be considered in the implementation of school programs and public policies for alcohol use prevention focusing on behaviors that could minimize exposure to risk.…”
Get full text

Escenarios de explotación sexual comercial de niños, niñas y adolescentes, modalidad abierta, Medellín, 2012 by Iván F. Muñoz-Echeverri, Camilo Noreña-Herrera, Sergio A. Rodríguez-Garzón, Diego A. Ossa-Estrada, Diego L. Bastidas-Lopera

“…The phenomenon was found to be concentrated in 11 cluster areas exhibiting the following context factors that favor cseca: problems with street lighting, insufficient presence of the State and the local police, drug trafficking, existence of bars, hotels and massage parlors in the area, social permissiveness, easy access to drugs and lodging. …”
Get full text

Effects of the Pelotas (Brazil) Peace Pact on violence and crime: a synthetic control analysisResearch in context by Michelle Degli Esposti, Carolina V.N. Coll, Eduardo Viegas da Silva, Doriam Borges, Emiliano Rojido, Alisson Gomes dos Santos, Ignacio Cano, Joseph Murray

“…Weights were identified using pre-intervention outcome trends and confounders (sociodemographics, economics, education, health and development, and drug trafficking). Findings: The Pacto led to an overall 9% reduction in homicide and 7% reduction in robbery in Pelotas. …”
Get full text

Docetaxel-trastuzumab stealth immunoliposome: development and in vitro proof of concept studies in breast cancer by Rodallec A, Brunel JM, Giacometti S, Maccario H, Correard F, Mas E, Orneto C, Savina A, Bouquet F, Lacarelle B, Ciccolini J, Fanciullino R

“…However, developing nanoparticles could help to improve the efficacy/toxicity balance of this doublet by improving drug trafficking and delivery to tumors. This project aimed to develop an immunoliposome in breast cancer, combining docetaxel encapsulated in a stealth liposome engrafted with trastuzumab, and comparing its performances on human breast cancer cell lines with standard combination of docetaxel plus trastuzumab.Methods: Several strategies to engraft trastuzumab to pegylated liposomes were tested. …”
Get full text

Réprimer par le droit : L’intervention de la Brigade nationale de police judicaire dans les procès du Hirak El-Rif by Mariam Benalioua

“…A look at the historical development of this brigade from the late 1990s to the present day shows how it has broadened its scope of intervention, moving from a brigade dealing only with cases linked to state security, mainly dealing with the files of left-wing political opponents, to a brigade including cases of national scope and falling within the scope of the fight against organized crime (terrorism, drug trafficking, etc.). This rearrangement in its structure and operation has enabled the brigade to professionalize its treatment of political cases, orienting its repressive strategy towards the collection of evidence leading to the criminalization of the protest movement. …”
Get full text

Fetal Membranes Contribute to Drug Transport across the Feto-Maternal Interface Utilizing the Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP) by Ananthkumar Kammala, Meagan Benson, Esha Ganguly, Enkhtuya Radnaa, Talar Kechichian, Lauren Richardson, Ramkumar Menon

“…We also hypothesize that extracellular vesicles (exosomes 30–160 nm) released from the FM and placental cells may also contain drug transport proteins and might impact drug trafficking across the feto-maternal interfaces. The objectives were to (1) localize the breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) in human FM; (2) determine the drug transport function of BCRP in chorion trophoblast cells (CTCs) of the FM; and (3) investigate the presence of BCRP in FM cell-derived exosomes, as a paracrine modifier of the tissue environment for transport functions. …”
Get full text

La corrupción política en México: del pasado a la transición democrática (The political corruption in Mexico: from the past to the democratic transition) by Nubia Nieto

“…. | In recent years, Mexico has experienced an increase of drug trafficking, and violence. Not to mention, the involvement of politicians in corruption scandals even after having gone through a democratic transition. …”
Get full text

Court-ordered inpatient psychiatric care in Switzerland: determinants of length of stay and treatment outcome by Kerstin Weber, Kerstin Weber, Sandrine Morier, Lise Lesaffre, Christophe Menu, Philippe Bertschy, François R. Herrmann, Panteleimon Giannakopoulos, Panteleimon Giannakopoulos

“…Length of stay was predicted by Cox regressions, and discharge locations were predicted by multinomial logistic regressions.ResultsThe typical inpatient was a 35-age single male re-offender, submitted to COT after a conviction for physical violence (78.9%) or property violation (64.2%), with drug trafficking (52.9%), in relation to psychotic (67.2%), antisocial or borderline personality disorder (35.8%) with comorbid substance use disorders (60.3%). …”
Get full text