To Incarcerate or Not to Incarcerate: Is That the Right Question for Drug Addiction?

2021 ◽  
pp. 070674372110630
Author(s):  
Samantha Johnstone ◽  
Maryam Sorkhou ◽  
David J. Castle ◽  
Tony P. George
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
The Right

Becoming a Vampire

2011 ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Anne Billson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Body Fluids ◽  
Sexual Liberation ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Right ◽  
Physical Changes

This chapter looks at vampire movies that became a metaphor for drug addiction in films like Martin, Near Dark and Abel Ferrara's The Addiction from 1995. It recounts how AIDS hit the headlines in the 1980s and sex was once again regarded as a dangerous pursuit after a couple of decades of unfettered sexual liberation. It also explains the vampire life-and-death cycle that offered a convenient way of dramatizing the idea of a virus transmissible through body fluids, leading to extreme physical changes and death. The chapter cites the scene in Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In when Virginia is bitten and says to Lacke that a kid has infected her somehow. It describes Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula as the first and one of the best-known transformation of human into vampire.

scholarly journals Primary infective endocarditis with isolated involvement of the pulmonary valve not associated with drug addiction

The Clinician ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
N. S. Chipigina ◽  
N. Yu. Karpova ◽  
M. M. Tulinov ◽  
E. V. Golovko ◽  
L. M. Goloukhova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Infective Endocarditis ◽  
Pulmonary Artery ◽  
Right Ventricle ◽  
Female Patient ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Rare Case ◽  
Pulmonary Valve ◽  
The Right

Objective: to describe a rare case of infective endocarditis (IE) with isolated localization in the pulmonary valve (PV).Materials and methods. We observed primary IE with isolated localization in the PV in a 27-year-old female patient without risk factors of right-side IE.Results. The disease was caused by Streptococcus gordonii and proceeded acutely with typical signs of right-side IE: fever above 38 °С, chills, clinical picture of bilateral septic embolic abscess pneumonia, as well as secondary anemia, secondary thrombocytopenia, and glomerulonephritis. Echocardiography showed large vegetations in the PV prolapsing in the right ventricle and pulmonary artery.Conclusion. IE with localization in the PV should be suspected in patients with fever and clinical picture of septic embolic pneumonia in absence of other embolic situations.

SELF-INFLICTED RATIONING

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-368
Author(s):  
B. H.
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Liver Transplantation ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Sports Injuries ◽  
Coronary Bypass ◽  
Heart Patients ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
The Right ◽  
Cardiac Surgeons

Who said the health service could not resolve its funding crisis? Britain's cardiac surgeons have come up with a solution that will solve the government's problems at a stroke: the withdrawal of treatment for self-inflicted sickness. Surgeons at two separate medical centers were reported last week to have withdrawn non-urgent coronary bypass operations from patients who were refusing to give up smoking. The potential for savings seems unlimited if the same principle is applied to other medical cases: drinkers in need of liver transplantation, HIV patients who acquired the infection through drug addiction or promiscuous sex, heart patients who are overweight, accident victims who had been driving carelessly or under the influence of drink, and those with sports injuries, not to mention smokers with lung cancer... The debate raises complex philosophical issues that need to be pursued—eg, the right to use statistics that apply to a category of people to deny treatment to an individual. Yet in an age rightly requiring individuals to take more responsibility for the consequences of their behavior, self-inflicted injuries cannot be totally ignored. Doctors themselves may well revolt when they see politicians shifting responsibility for what are basic rationing decisions on to doctors' shoulders. The issues raised are not primarily medical, but political: what criteria should be used for rationing resources?

The Ageing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Veerman
Keyword(s):  
Drug Addiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Situation

AbstractIt is argued in this article that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is no longer up to date. Compared with the new situation of children using the internet, cell phones, sending text messages, downloading videos, gaming and gambling on line, the CRC looks like an archaic document, the author found. Adolescents consume enormous amounts of alcohol and some have to be treated for addiction, but the term alcohol can't be found in the CRC. The CRC does not include the right to treatment for drug addiction. Article 33 (protection from illicit drugs) is much too weak for children and adolescents of the 21st Century, it is argued. Furthermore it was observed that globalisation and HIV/AIDS are not specifically addressed by the CRC. The author presents some proposals, one of them being a Review Conference of the States Parties to the CRC.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
J. Anthony VanDuzer
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The North ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Nafta Chapter 11 ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

What face familiarity feelings say about the lateralization of specific entities within the core system

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Gainotti
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory System ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Right

Abstract The target article carefully describes the memory system, centered on the temporal lobe that builds specific memory traces. It does not, however, mention the laterality effects that exist within this system. This commentary briefly surveys evidence showing that clear asymmetries exist within the temporal lobe structures subserving the core system and that the right temporal structures mainly underpin face familiarity feelings.

Study of charge transfer in FeTi

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 296-297
Author(s):  
J. Taft∅
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Charge Distribution ◽  
Electron Scattering ◽  
Periodic System ◽  
Electron Distribution ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
Transition Elements ◽  
Hartree Fock ◽  
Cscl Structure ◽  
The Right

It is well known that for reflections corresponding to large interplanar spacings (i.e., sin θ/λ small), the electron scattering amplitude, f, is sensitive to the ionicity and to the charge distribution around the atoms. We have used this in order to obtain information about the charge distribution in FeTi, which is a candidate for storage of hydrogen. Our goal is to study the changes in electron distribution in the presence of hydrogen, and also the ionicity of hydrogen in metals, but so far our study has been limited to pure FeTi. FeTi has the CsCl structure and thus Fe and Ti scatter with a phase difference of π into the 100-ref lections. Because Fe (Z = 26) is higher in the periodic system than Ti (Z = 22), an immediate “guess” would be that Fe has a larger scattering amplitude than Ti. However, relativistic Hartree-Fock calculations show that the opposite is the case for the 100-reflection. An explanation for this may be sought in the stronger localization of the d-electrons of the first row transition elements when moving to the right in the periodic table. The tabulated difference between fTi (100) and ffe (100) is small, however, and based on the values of the scattering amplitude for isolated atoms, the kinematical intensity of the 100-reflection is only 5.10-4 of the intensity of the 200-reflection.

New Dimensions in Freeze-Etching

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 202-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell L. Steere ◽  
Michael Moseley
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Surfaces ◽  
Aluminum Specimen ◽  
Specimen Holder ◽  
Freeze Etching ◽  
The Right

A redesigned specimen holder and cap have made possible the freeze-etching of both fracture surfaces of a frozen fractured specimen. In principal, the procedure involves freezing a specimen between two specimen holders (as shown in A, Fig. 1, and the left side of Fig. 2). The aluminum specimen holders and brass cap are constructed so that the upper specimen holder can be forced loose, turned over, and pressed down firmly against the specimen stage to a position represented by B, Fig. 1, and the right side of Fig. 2.

Adrenocorticotropin Production by a Mammary Carcinoma

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 462-463
Author(s):  
K.S. McCarty ◽  
N.R. Wallace ◽  
W. Litaker ◽  
S. Wells ◽  
G. Eisenbarth
Keyword(s):  
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Hormone Production ◽  
Carcinoma Of The Breast ◽  
Ectopic Acth ◽  
Ultrastructural Studies ◽  
Subcutaneous Metastases ◽  
Ectopic Acth Production ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pituitary Carcinomas

The production of adrenocorticotropic hormone by non-pituitary carcinomas has been documented in several tumors, most frequently small cell carcinoma of the lung, islet cell carcinomas of the pancreas, thymomas and carcinoids. Electron microscopy of these tumors reveals typical membrane-limited "neurosecretory" granules. Confirmation of the granules as adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) requires the use of OsO4 as a primary fixative to give the characteristic cored granule appearance in conjunction with immunohistochemical demonstration of the hormone peptide. Because of the rarity of ectopic ACTH production by mammary carcinomas and the absence of appropriate ultrastructural studies in the two examples of such ectopic hormone production in the literature of which we are aware (1,2), we present biochemical and ultrastructural data from a carcinoma of the breast with apparent ACTH production.The patient had her primary tumor in the right breast in 1969. The tumor recurred as visceral and subcutaneous metastases in 1976 and again in 1977.

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