
Auteur K. McELRATH
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Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur (14)

ENGLISH : `Booting' and `flushing' are terms used to describe an injecting behaviour in which the plunger is pulled back and the fluid (mostly blood and perhaps blood only) is re]injected. The behaviour differs from `registering', which occur[...]
FRANÇAIS : Cette étude utilise la théorie des activités routinières pour analyser dans un échantillon de 308 UDI les délits sur leur personne ou sur leurs biens. Nous estimons les taux de prévalence et identifions les facteurs qui contribuent à[...]
FRANÇAIS : On a grossi plus que partout ailleurs la prévalence et les modes d'usage de la drogue en Irlande du Nord et l'image qui en a émergé est fausse. Dans cet article divisé en trois parties, nous tentons d'explorer les facteurs qui ont fa[...]
K. McELRATH ; C. O'NEILL | 2011
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.22, n°2, March 2011) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND Drug scenes within several countries have changed in recent years to incorporate a range of licit psychoactive products, collectively known as "legal highs." Hundreds of different legal high products have been described in the literat[...]![]()
- 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 [...]
ENGLISH : Similar to other sociological studies of Ecstasy use, the authors' research suggests that Ecstasy users tend to report positive effects of the drug. However, we also observed that most users experienced at least one adverse psycholog[...]
K. McELRATH ; M. C. VAN HOUT | 2012
Dans Journal of Drug Issues (Vol.41, n°4, Fall 2011) Article : PériodiqueThis study focuses on individuals' preferences for mephedrone, a new psychoactive substance that has emerged in several countries. We examine the reasons for mephedrone preferences, and describe the positive and negative effects of the drug expe[...]
FRANÇAIS : L'histoire de la reproduction chez les femmes usagers de drogue a fait l'objet de peu d'attention malgré les risques associés aux prises de drogues pendant la grossesse et les hauts risques qui menacent leurs enfants. Cette étude ren[...]
The Fifth Edition of this popular anthology is a collection of contemporary and classic essays and articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of both legal and illicit drug use. In these selections, as well as in the[...]
This book is Roxbury's bestselling collection of contemporary and classic essays and articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives and policies of both legal and illicit drug use. In these selections, as well as in the commentaries t[...]![]()
Now in its sixth edition, "The American Drug Scene" is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. Offering a unique focus on the social contexts[...]
If anything has been learned about drug taking in the United States, it is that patterns of drug abuse are continually shifting and changing. Fads and fashions in the drugs of abuse seem to come and go. Drugs of choice emerge and then disappear [...]