The U.S. Opioid Crisis: Decriminalization as a Potential Approach

decriminalization as a change

decriminalization limits and narrows the sphere of criminal law through two methods: to eliminate the criminal description of special behavior (a) and to remain or not remain it in the public jurisdiction of other formal control mechanisms (b). if it is left in the public jurisdiction, it requires non-criminal sanctions. therefore, decriminalization is a process that at least, has got two outlo...

Should US Physicians Support the Decriminalization of Commercial Sex?

According to the World Health Organization, "commercial sex" is the exchange of money or goods for sexual services, and this term can be applied to both consensual and nonconsensual exchanges. Some nonconsensual exchanges qualify as human trafficking. Whether the form of commercial sex that is also known as prostitution should be decriminalized is being debated contentiously around the world, i...

the effect of a selfregulatory approach on the improvement of efl learners listening comprehension

تاثیر آموزش مهارت خود محوری بر روی ارتقاء مهارت شنیداری زبان آموزان هدف این پژوهش بررسی عوامل موثر در ارتقا مهارت شنیداری زبان آموزان ایرانی بود. در مرحله اول این تحقیق پژوهشگر پس از انجام مصاحبه نود زبان آموز را با استفاده از تست ایلتس انتخاب شدند. برای بررسی عوامل عوامل موثر در ارتقا مهارت شنیداری زبان آموزان ایرانی از دو نوع فیلم ویرایش شده و ویرایش نشده استفاده گردید.برای انجام تح...

The Opioid Crisis From Research to Practice.

I n 2015, researchers from Yale University published a randomized, controlled trial on the treatment of opioid addiction.1 The study asked whether patients identified in the emergency department would benefit from prompt access to the well-proven medication buprenorphine, including onsite prior to discharge. The researchers were questioning not what, how, why, or who—but where. The results of t...

The Opioid Crisis and Its Consequences.