"Unequal opportunity": neighbourhood disadvantage and the chance to buy illegal drugs

"Unequal opportunity": neighbourhood disadvantage and the chance to buy illegal drugs.

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study investigates whether subgroups of people living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods may be more likely to come into contact with drug dealers as compared with persons living in more advantaged areas, with due attention to male-female and race-ethnicity differences. DESIGN Standardised survey data collected using stratified, multistage area probability sampling. SETTI...

The Criminal Intervention in Illegal Buy and Sell of Foreign Currency Looking at the Judicial Precedent

Buy and sell of foreign currency is one of the banking operations and the Central Bank is responsible for formulating and setting its regulations, as well as monitoring their implementation. The essential criminal laws supporting exchange policies are; the Monetary and Banking law of the country approved 09/07/1972, the punishment of the disarrangers of country’s economic system approved 10/12/...

Illegal Drugs and the Outlaw Hero Mythology

"Felix Mitchell is the biggest drug dealer ever here. He made history in Oakland, Calif.," Owen said. "He's a hero..." He is accused of masterminding the distribution of millions of dollars in heroin and ordering the deaths of five rivals during Oakland's 1980 drug war. But to Owen and scores of kids growing up, as Mitchell did, in East Oakland's bleak 69th Avenue housing projects, Felix Mitche...

Ethnographic Evidence, Heterogeneity, and Neighbourhood Effects after Moving To Opportunity

Addictive illegal drugs: structural neuroimaging.

Illegal addictive drugs can lead to functional or structural impairment of the central nervous system. This review provides an overview of the structural imaging findings on CT, MR imaging, and conventional angiography related to chronic and acute abuse of the most commonly abused illegal drugs, including cannabis, organic solvents, and amphetamines and opioids and their respective derivatives....