Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Drawing on the Global Policing Database (GPD), this review assesses the impact of supplier
arrests and seizures on drug crime, drug use, drug price, drug purity, and drug harm …

The concentration of free-morphine was determined in peripheral (femoral) blood from
heroin-related deaths and compared with the concentration in venous blood from impaired …

This study describes the substances involved in fatal events that were investigated by the
Forensic Medicine Institute of the Federal District, Brazil, from 2006 to 2008. The presence of …

Background Florida, the epicenter of the recent prescription drug epidemic in the United
States, maintains a statewide drug mortality surveillance system. We evaluated yearly …

Background: Street-level heroin is one of the most abused drugs in Iran. Law enforcement
agencies and police try to seize illicit heroin and ban the trafficking of this opioid …

In illicit drug markets, the price and purity of drugs change frequently. While it is well known
that purity-adjusted price affects drug use, impacts on other outcomes are less clear. This …

Abstract Background & Aims Heroin use is associated with a disproportionately high level of
morbidity and mortality with most deaths attributable to drug overdose. Aggregate heroin …

ABSTRACT Objective: The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) is an observer-based
instrument that grades the signs and symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Our purpose was to …

This article discusses cases of drug-poisoning death in which 6-acetylmorphine (6-AM) was
identified in blood as evidence for recent use of heroin. We report the demographics of the …