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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 | 2000Article : 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 [...]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 [...]Périodique
R. COOMBER | 1999FRANÇAIS : Cette recherche, portant sur un échantillon de 248 étudiants d'une université située dans le sud-est de Londres, vise à déterminer ce que les drogues illicites, dans leur esprit, sont supposées contenir, les raisons pour lesquelles i[...]Périodique
T. BESWICK ; D. BEST ; S. REES ; R. COOMBER ; M. GOSSOP ; J. STRANG | 2001FRANÇAIS : En interviewant 116 patients toxicomanes fréquentant les services de soins au Sud de Londres, on relève parmi ce groupe, 90% d'usagers d'héroïne dans le mois précédant l'interview, 60% d'usagers de crack et 58% d'usagers d'alcool. P[...]Périodique
D. BEST ; M. GOSSOP ; L. H. MAN ; G. STILLWELL ; R. COOMBER ; J. STRANG | 2002ENGLISH : One hundred and thirty five drug users in contact with treatment services in Scotland and England were interviewed about their experiences of witnessing overdoses-both overdoses resolved successfully and those leading to death-and ac[...]Livre
ENGLISH : Drug dealers are commonly presented as dealing in death, preying on the young and innocent and spreading addiction with little care or regard for those they entangle. Likewise drug markets are commonly depicted as being hierarchicall[...]Périodique
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R. COOMBER | 2011While many of the authors in the first section of the book focus on the problems arising from the epidemiological or medicalized approaches to drug use, Coomber argues that the conceptualization of the drug problem is informed less by the scienc[...]Périodique
R. COOMBER ; K. MOORE ; S. MILES ; N. SOUTH ; J. WITTON ; J. STRANG ; D. BEST ; T. BESWICK ; M. GOSSOP ; S. REES ; T. MAY ; M. HOUGH ; G. PEARSON ; D. HOBBS ; MC ELRATH K. | 2004Article : Périodique
ENGLISH : This study is a qualitative exploration of two distinctive high-profile street drug markets in Sydney, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 street-level heroin dealers about their experiences of selling drugs [...]Périodique
R. COOMBER | 1997ENGLISH : The notion that street drugs have been adulterated/diluted by all sorts of dangerous substances such as Vim, Ajax, ground-glass, brick-dust and even rat-poison is a common one. Moreover, it is in fact a practice believed to be true b[...]Périodique
R. COOMBER | 1997FRANÇAIS : Les utilisateurs de drogue, la police et les cliniciens pensent en général que les dealers de rue frelatent les produits qu'ils vendent avec des substances dangereuses. C'est en fait peu fréquent. Les facteurs qui entretiennent ce my[...]Article : Périodique
R. COOMBER ; L. MOYLE ; V. BELACKOVA ; T. DECORTE ; P. HAKKARAINEN ; A. HATHAWAY ; K. J. LAIDLER ; S. LENTON ; S. MURPHY ; J. SCOTT ; M. STEFUNKOVA ; K. VAN DE VEN ; M. VLAEMYNCK ; B. WERSE |Background: It is now commonly accepted that there exists a form of drug supply, that involves the non-commercial supply of drugs to friends and acquaintances for little or no profit, which is qualitatively different from profit motivated 'drug [...]Livre
R. COOMBER | 1998FRANÇAIS : Un débat étayé sur les modalités, les causes ou même la légitimité d'un contrôle sur les drogues et ceux qui les consomment nécessite un éclairage sur le fond, les contextes qui ont contribué à la mise en place de ce contrôle aussi e[...]Périodique
R. COOMBER | 1999FRANÇAIS : Cette étude examine la nature des pratiques d'adultération et de dilution des drogues (« coupage ») concernant les produits illicites, lhéroïne en particulier, aux Etats-Unis dans les années 1990. Le modèle conventionnel partant du p[...]Article : Périodique
R. COOMBER ; L. MOYLE ; N. SOUTH |Aims: Describes how the relative normalisation of recreational drug use in the UK has been productive of, and fused with, the relatively normalised and non-commercial social supply of recreational drugs. Methods: Semi-structured interviews with[...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
ENGLISH : Twenty-one incarcerated drug dealers and 60 opiate users were questioned about the provision of "freebies" (free drugs) and credit in drug market transactions in London and the UK. In particular, each group was asked about the contex[...]