Behaviour ; Consumption ; Drug ; Estimation ; Model ; Probability ; Test ; United States
The AA. develop a simple model that may be used to determine the actual rate of drug usage in a given environment, based on drug test rates (reported rates) and laboratory drug testing accuracy. They use USA recent data to illustrate the procedure.
Drugs and war destabilise Thai-Myanmar border region
Army ; Burma ; Conflict ; Drug ; Frontier ; Geopolitics ; Thailand
Consumption of methamphetamines has skyrocketed in Thailand. The destabilising effects of the drug trade are not just social. Groups vie for control of the lucrative trade and the border is increasingly militarised in response to the aggravation
Show business: Rangoon’s “war on drugs” in Shan State
Burma ; Drug ; Policy ; Political regime ; Territorial control
Investigative report exposing as a charade the Burmese military regime’s “War on Drugs” in Shan State. It provides evidence that the drug industry is integral part to the regime’s political strategy to pacify and control Shan State, and concludes
that only political reform can solve Burma’s drug problems. While colluding in and profiting from the drug business, the regime has taken no serious measure to deal with its social impacts. The book is in three parts : 1 - Background of poppy cultivation
in Shan State ; 2 - The SPDC’s “war against drugs” in Shan State ; 3 - The drug trade in Shan State today. - (GL)
Afghanistan ; Burma ; Conflict ; Cultivated plants ; Drug ; International trade ; Laos ; Thailand ; World market
Ten research papers presented during the International Conference held in Amsterdam in December 2003. These papers analyse the consequences of Burma's illicit drug production for neighbouring countries and focuses on Burma in the international
context of the global drug trade. The work is divided in htree perspectives : local, regional and global. - (GL)
Weighted spatial adaptative filtering: Monte Carlo studies and application to illicit drug market modeling
Algorithm ; Distance ; Distribution of points ; Drug ; Monte Carlo analysis ; Pennsylvania ; Simulation ; Spatial analysis ; United States
. A case study on illicit drug-market activities using census tract-level data from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, further illustrates the advantages of the weighted filter.
Alcoholism ; California ; Drug ; Health ; Los Angeles ; Medical services ; Neighbourhood ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial distribution ; United States of America ; Young people
to supportive services in the child welfare system ; 2-Geospatial analyses of alcohol and drug problems : empirical needs and theoretical foundations ; 4-Exploring the spread of methamphetamine problems within California, 1980 to 2006 ; 5-Spatial-temporal
disease mapping of illicit drug abuse or dependence in the presence of misaligned ZIP codes.
Drug wars collateral damage. US counternarcotic aid and human rights in the Americas
Drug ; Human rights ; Latin America ; Political geography ; Political regime ; United States of America
of this research suggests that policy makers in Washington risk losing regional support for US drug control policies if US laws that govern the allocation of aid are not effectively implemented.
Cartel ; Communication ; Drug ; Internet ; Mexico ; Music ; Political geography ; Terrorism ; Violence ; cartel ; drug trafficking ; narco ; terrorism
as a struggle for regional political control; (b) narco-terror as a practice ordered by cartel leaders rather than spontaneous violence of foot soldiers; and (c) narco-terror as an expansion strategy from solely drug trafficking to other kinds of organised crime.
When the banks withdraw, slum landlords take over : the structuration of neighbourhood decline through redlining, drug dealing, speculation and immigrant exploitation
Asia ; Burma ; China ; Consumption ; Drug ; Economic sector ; Laos ; Marketing channel ; Production ; Route ; South-Eastern Asia ; Thailand
English version of the French work published in 2002, this book is the result of a research program of the Institut de Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC). Divided in two parts : 1, Yaa Baa, an illicit drug from the Golden