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Auteur R. COOMBER |
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Article : Périodique
A concept of 'social supply' has emerged in the UK that describes drug transactions that are almost exclusively to friends and acquaintances and that are non-commercially motivated. Social suppliers are increasingly understood not to be drug dea[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
A. CHILDS ; M. BULL ; R. COOMBER |Common depictions of buying and selling illicit drugs online centre on how drug market actors engage in dark web drug cryptomarkets, but the supply of illicit drugs also takes place in 'plain site' on the surface web. Drawing on netnographic obs[...]![]()
Rapport
M. DUFFY ; N. SCHAEFER ; R. COOMBER ; OCONNELL L. ; P. J. TURNBULL | York : Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 2008How do young people obtain cannabis? A snapshot view from a large city and rural villages. The supply of drugs to young people is an emotive subject with discussion rarely referring to actual evidence (which is itself scarce). What evidence exis[...]![]()
Document texte divers
ENGLISH : Attitudes toward drugs are not necessarily informed only by facts concerning their health risks. The acceptability or nonacceptability of a given drug in a particular place and time is also influenced by cultural conventions and trad[...]![]()
Document texte divers
ENGLISH : Cutting is the mixing or diluting of a particular drug with another substance. It is usually carried out to add bulk to a drug and thus increase its cost, but drugs are also sometimes cut to enhance their effect.![]()
Périodique
R. COOMBER | 1999FRANÇAIS : Il est largement reconnu que le coupage des drogues peut augmenter considérablement les risques liés à l'usage illicite. Les usagers joueraient une sorte de roulette russe pharmacologique. L'auteur considère que les risques liés aux [...]![]()
Périodique
R. COOMBER | 1997FRANÇAIS : Un échantillon international de 80 dealers de 14 pays différents a été joint via Internet et questionné sur ses pratiques de "coupage" (adultération/dilution) des drogues qu'ils vendent. Une recherche préalable sur le Royaume Uni av[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug[...]![]()
Livre
FRANÇAIS : Tout au long du 20ème siècle et au début du 21ème siècle, chercheurs, hommes politiques et médias ont accordé une attention considérable au phénomène de l'usage de drogues en Europe, aux États-Unis et dans d'autres sociétés dites "o[...]![]()
Livre
DrugScope ; G. HAYES ; H. SHAPIRO ; M. PLANT ; J. MOUNTENEY ; T. BENNETT ; R. COOMBER | London : DrugScope | 2000![]()
Article : Périodique
L. MOYLE ; A. CHILDS ; R. COOMBER ; M. J. BARRATT |Background: The use of new technology is frequently harnessed by drug suppliers to both increase profits and reduce risk. While a growing body of research has investigated drug sales through online pharmacies and cryptomarkets, despite growing m[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
A. CHILDS ; R. COOMBER ; M. BULL ; M. J. BARRATT |This is the first study to explore how cryptomarket actors are increasingly adopting encrypted messaging applications to "direct deal" beyond the provided platforms, to obviate the protocols of cryptomarkets, and to diversify the communication e[...]![]()
Périodique
T. BESWICK ; D. BEST ; J. BEARN ; S. REES ; M. GOSSOP ; R. COOMBER ; J. STRANG | 2002ENGLISH : One hundred and eight opiate addicts attending an in-patient opiate treatment unit were interviewed, using a mixed quantitative-qualitative approach, to investigate their experiences of witnessing overdoses, the associated interpreta[...]![]()
Article : Périodique
The small sample sizes and context-bound findings of qualitative research are commonly viewed as significant factors that limit its use (or "transferability") in settings other than those in which the research was originally conducted. This perc[...]![]()
Périodique
R. COOMBER ; C. MORRIS ; L. DUNN | 2000ENGLISH : Exaggeration, distortion, inaccuracy, sensationalism; each of these labels has been consistently applied to the last 40 years and beyond. This research sought to understand what quality control mechanisms are employed by the UK print [...]