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Relative frequencies of words in the 1988–89 and 2016–17 heroin samples (bi...
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 4 Relative frequencies of words in the 1988–89 and 2016–17 heroin samples (bigrams).
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Relative frequencies of words in the 1988–89 crack cocaine and heroin sampl...
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 5 Relative frequencies of words in the 1988–89 crack cocaine and heroin samples (trigrams).
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Relative frequencies of words in the 2016–17 heroin and opioid samples (tri...
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 6 Relative frequencies of words in the 2016–17 heroin and opioid samples (trigrams).
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 10 Topic model for the 1988–89 heroin sample.
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 11 Topic model for the 2016–17 heroin sample.
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Published: 01 April 2020
Appendix A Figure 1 Opioids (including heroin 2016–17) vs. crack cocaine, 1988–89.
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in Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
> Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
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Appendix A Figure 2 Opioids (including heroin 2016–17) vs. methamphetamine, 1992–93.
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Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 211–239.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Figure 4 Relative frequencies of words in the 1988–89 and 2016–17 heroin samples (bigrams). ...
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IV Drug Use and Aids: Public Policy and Dirty Needles
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (4): 719–740.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Jeff Stryker Users of intravenous heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines risk the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the sharing of contaminated injection equipment. Although most users are aware of this risk, the scarcity of sterile needles and syringes, combined with various...
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Health Care Policy Issues in the Drug Abuser Treatment Field
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (2): 357–385.
Published: 01 April 1990
... inadequate funding. Although responses to several epidemics (heroin, crack, and AIDS) have produced periods of increased allocations for drug abuse treatment, more often than not long waiting lists at programs have rationed treatment to lower-income addicts seeking care. Low salary levels have limited...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (5): 869–871.
Published: 01 October 2016
... (586,000) are addicted due to heroin, nearly two million Americans have opioid addiction problems that started with prescription pain relievers. According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine ( 2016 ), “four in five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers. As a consequence...
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Why Policies Fail: The Illusion of Services in the Opioid Epidemic
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... You combine all these factors: dynamite” (interview 66). State officials heard about a lack of beds, too. The 2016 State Heroin and Opioid Task Force, chaired by Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul and OASAS Commissioner Arlene González-Sánchez, “repeatedly heard” about a shortage of treatment beds (Heroin...
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (4): 983–992.
Published: 01 August 1993
... in these crusades. The criminalization of mood-changing drugs,
including marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, similarly, was justified by the
lack of self-control experienced by the user. In all of these areas pub-
lic health has gone beyond the policy of informing the population of the
health risks...
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Alcohol, Drugs, and Public Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (4): 816–818.
Published: 01 August 1987
... Academy Press, 1984), 174 pp. Denis Foley, Stop DWI: Successful Community Responses to Drunk Driving (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986), 183 pp. Patrick Biernacki, Pathways from Heroin Addiction: Recovery without Treatment (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 245 pp...
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Closing Kynect and Restructuring Medicaid Threaten Kentucky's Health and Economy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (4): 719–737.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of the decreasing availability and increasing cost of prescription opioids, many rural Appalachian residents have begun using heroin (Patrick 2015 ), which has greater availability and decreased cost (Patrick and Landon, 2013 ). As a result, heroin use in Kentucky has increased 63 percent since 2002 (Jones et al...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (5): 965–978.
Published: 01 October 2005
...) are strongest for marijuana. Cocaine
and heroin require more stringent measures.
Drug War Heresies provides the clearest discussion of harm reduction
to appear in print. In addition to clear-eyed discussion of the likely impact
of specifi c interventions, MacCoun and Reuter provide a psychologically...
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Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (5): 978–985.
Published: 01 October 2005
...) are strongest for marijuana. Cocaine
and heroin require more stringent measures.
Drug War Heresies provides the clearest discussion of harm reduction
to appear in print. In addition to clear-eyed discussion of the likely impact
of specifi c interventions, MacCoun and Reuter provide a psychologically...
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do about It
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (5): 985–990.
Published: 01 October 2005
...) are strongest for marijuana. Cocaine
and heroin require more stringent measures.
Drug War Heresies provides the clearest discussion of harm reduction
to appear in print. In addition to clear-eyed discussion of the likely impact
of specifi c interventions, MacCoun and Reuter provide a psychologically...
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Framing, Governance, and Partisanship: Putting Politics Front and Center in the Opioid Epidemic
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 365–372.
Published: 01 April 2020
... users began turning to illicit opioids including heroin and synthetic drugs like fentanyl. The crisis has devastated communities and millions of families across the United States. Many academic studies and government commission reports have focused on education, treatment, and other strategies...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 171–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... , Sharfstein Josh , Warren Gregory , Olsen Yngvild , Mitchell Shannon G. , and Jaffe Jerome H. 2013 . “ Opioid Agonist Treatments and Heroin Overdose Deaths in Baltimore, Maryland, 1995–2009 .” American Journal of Public Health 103 , no. 5 : 917 – 22 . Volkow Nora...
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