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Auteur F. MEASHAM |
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Article : Périodique
P. E. OOMEN ; D. SCHORI ; K. TOGEL-LINS ; D. ACREMAN ; S. CHENORHOKIAN ; A. LUF ; A. KARDEN ; C. PAULOS ; E. FORNERO ; E. GERACE ; R. P. J. KONING ; L. GALINDO ; L. A. SMIT-RIGTER ; F. MEASHAM ; M. VENTURA |Background: European drug checking services exchange information on drug trends within the Trans European Drug Information (TEDI) network, allowing monitoring and coordination of responses. Starting in Spring 2020, several services detected the [...]Article : Périodique
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present some of the continued resistance and challenges faced by drug checking services (DCS) and review how the existing literature and the contributions to the special issue address them, with a view to[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: To explore the feasibility of delivering community-based drug safety testing (drug checking), to trial service design characteristics and to compare with festival-based testing. Methods: In total, 171 substances of concern were submitted [...]Livre
FRANÇAIS : Au Royaume Uni, la dernière décennie a vu la transformation de l'usage récréatif de drogues réservé à une minorité en une activité de loisir "normalisée" largement répandue. Ce livre explore, en premier lieu, le profil et le style d[...]Article : Périodique
K. MOORE ; P. I. DARGAN ; D. M. WOOD ; F. MEASHAM |Background/Aims: To assess whether novel psychoactive substances (NPS) displace established club drugs, supplement them or act as drugs of initiation via a study of the relationship between mephedrone, ecstasy pills, cocaine and MDMA powder amon[...]Article : Périodique
Women's illicit drug use has been increasing rapidly in the 1990s in the UK and elsewhere in the developed world. Lifetime prevalence rates show that gender is no longer a significant predictor of, or protector from, illicit drug use. The concen[...]Rapport
S. ROLLES ; M. BARTON ; N. EASTWOOD ; T. LLOYD ; F. MEASHAM ; D. NUTT ; H. SUMNALL | London : Liberal Democrats | 2016This groundbreaking report has been published by an independent panel of experts set up by the Liberal Democrats. This report sets out how the legal production and supply of cannabis could work in the UK. It was established in the autumn by Libe[...]Livre
Un adolescent anglais sur deux a essayé de consommer des drogues illégales et un sur quatre en utilise régulièrement. Une étude menée sur cinq ans a suivi cette population typique de jeunes qui ont grandi telle une "génération chimique". Ce livr[...]Article : Périodique
M. ADLEY ; G. JONES ; F. MEASHAM |This paper describes the history of the development of taxonomies of psychoactive drug use, and discusses the conceptualization of three recent taxonomies: comparing their features, and considering their application in education, treatment, and [...]Livre
- Why do people take drugs? - How do we understand moral panics? - What is the relationship between drugs and violence? - How do people's social positions influence their individual involvement in drug use? Insightful and illuminating, this [...]Article : Périodique
A. STEVENS ; R. FORTSON ; F. MEASHAM ; H. SUMNALL |This journal has often analysed legislation in the field of drug policy. Rarely has it discussed a proposed law that has such deep problems in its legal and scientific bases. The Psychoactive Substances Bill, which is currently proceeding throug[...]Article : Périodique
F. MEASHAM ; L. WILLIAMS ; J. ALDRIDGE |Through a consideration of quantitative and qualitative data obtained from young women aged 18-28 in the later years of the North West England Longitudinal Study, this paper explores how women's drug careers develop, progressing the authors' nor[...]Article : Périodique
Purpose - In this fourth paper in a series on emergent drug trends in the UK (2006 ketamine, 2009 MDMA powder/crystal, 2010 mephedrone), the authors consider how the pharmacological landscape has changed since substituted cathinones (including m[...]Article : Périodique
C. CHATWIN ; F. MEASHAM ; K. O'BRIEN ; H. SUMNALL |This special issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy focuses on 'new drugs', drawing on contributions to an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series (https://newdrugseminars.wordpress.com). [Extract]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
K. O'BRIEN ; C. CHATWIN ; C. JENKINS ; F. MEASHAM |Aims: (i) To collect data on the consumption patterns, purchase patterns and motivations of the online NPS community, and (ii) engage this specific group of NPS users in an exploration of recent policy developments in the UK focusing on their ex[...]Bulletin : Périodique
International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol.40 - February 2017 - New psychoactive substances and human enhancement drugs
C. CHATWIN, Éditeur scientifique ; F. MEASHAM, Éditeur scientifique ; K. O'BRIEN, Éditeur scientifique ; H. SUMNALL, Éditeur scientifique | 2017Article : Périodique
Aim: To conduct a follow-up study to assess the prevalence of use and popularity of emergent psychoactive drugs ("legal highs"), amongst London club-goers 12 months after previous surveys in the same location. Design: Four in situ surveys were [...]Périodique
H. PARKER ; F. MEASHAM | 1994FRANÇAIS : Une enquête a été réalisée auprès de 752 jeunes âgés de 15 à 16 ans, fin 1992 dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre, ciblant plus spécifiquement l'accessibilité et la disponibilité de la drogue ainsi que l'usage récréatif ou régulier. 47%[...]Article : Périodique
In a 2010 Lancet paper Nutt et al. propose a model for evaluating and ranking drug harms, building on earlier work by incorporating multi criteria decision analysis. It is argued that problems arise in modelling drug harms using rankable single [...]Article : Périodique
Presented here are the first findings of self report surveys of prevalence of illicit drug use by customers in the night time economy of a large English city. Five random sample surveys conducted with dance club customers and three similar surve[...]Article : Périodique
R. Q. VROLIJK ; F. MEASHAM ; A. QUESADA ; A. LUF ; D. SCHORI ; S. RADLEY ; D. ACREMAN ; J. SMITH ; M. VERDENIK ; D. MARTINS ; M. CUNHA ; C. J. PAULOS ; I. F. PICCININ ; E. GERACE ; A. KARDEN ; R. P. J. KONING ; L. A. SMIT-RIGTER ; M. VENTURA |Purpose: The 3,4-methylenedioxymetamphetamine (MDMA) content in ecstasy tablets has increased enormously throughout Europe across the past decade. This study aims to determine whether this is caused by the production of "stronger" tablets (more [...]Article : Périodique
F. MEASHAM ; K. O'BRIEN ; G. TURNBULL |Aims: From an academic discourse explaining trends in drug-related attitudes and behaviours, "normalisation" now also encompasses public health policy advocating "denormalisation" of smoking. This study explored young people's attitudes and beha[...]NouveautéLivre
FRANÇAIS : Un nouveau mode de consommation de l'alcool, qui a été associé à un certain nombre de problèmes sanitaires et sociaux, constitue à l'heure actuelle une source de préoccupation grandissante à l'échelle internationale, comme en témoig[...]Article : Périodique
J. R. H. ARCHER ; P. I. DARGAN ; S. HUDSON ; S. DAVIES ; M. PUCHNAREWICZ ; A. T. KICMAN ; J. RAMSEY ; F. MEASHAM ; M. WOOD ; A. JOHNSTON ; D. M. WOOD |Background: The epidemiology on recreational drug use is based on self-reported user surveys. The scope of this is limited as users are often not aware of exactly what drug(s) they are using. Waste water (sewage plant) analysis has been used to [...]Article : Périodique
It has been much more common for drugs to be subjected to tighter rather than looser control as drugs and evidence about their effects have has emerged. We argue that there is in place a drug policy ratchet which subjects new psychoactive substa[...]