KAJIAN YURIDIS POLA PENYIDIKAN TINDAK PIDANA NARKOTIKA DI TINGKAT KEPOLISIAN

Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics is a Lex specialis which regulates narcotics crimes. Even though narcotics crimes have special regulations governing them, the investigation of narcotics crimes is still regulated in the Criminal Procedure Code. This article was written with the aim of knowing and analyzing the application of the Criminal Procedure Code in the investigation of narcotics crimes at the Malang City Police Narcotics Agency. This writing method is empirical juridical by combining primary legal materials with secondary legal materials. The author's conclusions and suggestions, namely members of the Malang City Police Narcotics Unit, in carrying out their duties as investigators are guided by the Criminal Procedure Code, the procedures that members of the Malang City Police Narcotics Unit use are appropriate, however, individuals are still found who are irresponsible in carrying out the investigation process. In carrying out the investigation process, Malang City Police Narcotics Unit investigators also experienced several obstacles which caused a slight delay in the investigation process and law enforcement

UPAYA KEPOLISIAN DALAM PENANGGULANGAN TINDAK PIDANA PENYALAHGUNAAN NARKOTIKA DIKALANGAN REMAJA (Studi Di Polresta Malang Kota)

Narcotics are a threat to the younger generation, the impact is very broad and requires appropriate efforts by law enforcement. Juridically, narcotics abuse is explained in Article 1 point 15 of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. The issue of narcotics abuse by teenagers is interesting to research, especially regarding the police's efforts to take action, both in the form of prevention and action, with the aim of eradicating narcotics. The problems that will be studied are related to the efforts of the Malang City Police in tackling criminal acts of narcotics abuse among teenagers in Malang City and the obstacles faced in dealing with this problem. This aims to determine the police's efforts to prevent narcotics abuse by teenagers. The research method used is descriptive sociological juridical, based on primary and secondary data processing from library research and field research. The efforts made by the police are preventive through campaigns, outreach, patrols and raids as well as making the village resilient. Repressively in the form of firm action in accordance with Law No. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics and Law no. 11 of 2012 concerning the Juvenile Criminal Justice System. Meanwhile, curative efforts emphasize healing, namely by providing rehabilitation to teenagers. Meanwhile, the obstacles faced are related to 4 factors, including legal factors, law enforcement factors, facilities and infrastructure factors, community factors. Efforts to overcome these obstacles are by increasing the number of police personnel, providing further education, carrying out good budget planning, breaking up narcotics networks, making it difficult to access narcotics, knowing the mode of distribution of narcotics, establishing cooperation with other institutions, and building relationships/partners with the community and providing security guarantees to the community

Drug Possession Arrests Reported in Alaska, 1986–2017 — Drug Types by Sex

Underlying data is available in both Excel and PDF format. (Download below.)This fact sheet presents data on drug possession arrests by type of drug and sex of arrestee as reported by Alaska law enforcement agencies for the 32-year period 1986 to 2017. Types of drugs include narcotics, synthetic narcotics, marijuana, and other non-narcotic drugs. Overall, males comprise roughly four out of five drug possession arrests in the state of Alaska. The female and male rates parallel one another in that they rise and fall at the same points in most years. In 2002, the synthetic narcotics and other non-narcotics possession arrest rates sharply increased for both males and females until the mid-2000s before a sharp decline and subsequent increase. Marijuana possession, the offense with the highest arrest rates, peaked at 90.4 per 100,000 female residents and 324.9 per 100,000 male residents. Synthetic narcotics possession, the offense with the lowest arrest rates, peaked at 13.8 per 100,000 female residents and 29.8 per 100,000 male residents. Narcotics possession is the only offense that peaked before 2000. Data is drawn from the annual Crime in Alaska report of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, which represents the State of Alaska's contribution to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) program.Drug possession arrests / Narcotics arrest rates by sex / Marijuana arrest rates by sex / Synthetic narcotics arrest rates by sex / Other non-narcotics arrest rates by sex / Summary / Note

Drug Sale and Manufacture Arrests Reported in Alaska, 1986–2017 — Drug Types by Sex

Underlying data is available in both Excel and PDF format. (Download below.)This fact sheet presents data on drug sale and manufacture arrests by type of drug and sex of arrestee as reported by Alaska law enforcement agencies for the 32-year period 1986 to 2017. Types of drugs include narcotics, synthetic narcotics, marijuana, and other non-narcotic drugs. Overall, males comprise roughly three-fourths of the total drug sale and manufacture arrests in the state of Alaska. The female and male rates parallel one another in that they rise and fall at the same points in most years. For all drugs, the difference between female and male arrest rates in 2017 are smaller than in 1986. Data is drawn from the annual Crime in Alaska report of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, which represents the State of Alaska's contribution to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) program.Drug sale and manufacture arrests / Narcotics arrest rates by sex / Marijuana arrest rates by sex / Synthetic narcotics arrest rates by sex / Other non-narcotics arrest rates by sex / Summary / Note

Narcotics and Criminality

"Livet efter gymnasiesärskolan" är en intervjuundersökning med två årgångar elever som tagit studenten 2012 och 2013 från något av de fem erbjudna nationella programmen på gymnasiesärskolan inom Jämtlands gymnasieförbund (JGY). Syftet med studien var att närmare undersöka hur boendesituation, sysselsättning och ekonomiska villkor ser ut efter avslutade gymnasiestudier för avsedd målgrupp. Intervjusvaren visar faktisk fördelning av sysselsättningsform, könstraditionella yrkesval och samstämmighet mellan sysselsättning och genomgångna gymnasieprogram. Studien omfattar frågor och svar om boende, nuvarande sysselsättning och om eventuell anställningsform samt förslag till eventuella förändringar av nuvarande livssituation. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i semi- strukturerade intervjuer med fyrtiofem avgångselever från något nationellt gymnasiesärskoleprogram inom upptagningsområdet för JGY. Samtliga intervjuer utfördes en och en via personliga möten och i vissa fall, då intervjupersonen önskat så, via telefon. Resultatet visar att informanterna förutom de sju som vid tidpunkten för studien var arbetslösa trivdes med sin nuvarande sysselsättning. Noterbart är att det är färre arbetslösa bland informanterna i föreliggande studie än för övriga ungdomar i Jämtland/Härjedalen. Överensstämmelse mellan sysselsättning och utbildning har 66 procent av populationen. Studien indikerar att det finns könsbundna yrkesval inom undersökningsgruppen. Den vanligaste boendeformen var LSS-boende vilket tjugo informanter hade vid tidpunkten för studiens genomförande. Tolv informanter hade eget boende och ytterligare tolv bodde i föräldrahemmet. Tjugoåtta informanter angav att de inte önskar någon förändring av nuvarande livssituation. De förslag till förändringar som emellertid framkommer i studien handlade främst om möjligheten till arbete och eget boende

Confronting the opioid crisis: Practical pain management and strategies: AOA 2018 critical issues symposium

The United States is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Clinicians have been part of the problem because of overprescribing of narcotics for perioperative pain management. Clinicians need to understand the pathophysiology and science of addiction to improve perioperative management of pain for their patients. Multiple modalities for pain management exist that decrease the use of narcotics. Physical strategies, cognitive strategies, and multimodal medication can all provide improved pain relief and decrease the use of narcotics. National medical societies are developing clinical practice guidelines for pain management that incorporate multimodal strategies and multimodal medication. Changes to policy that improve provider education, access to naloxone, and treatment for addiction can decrease narcotic misuse and the risk of addiction

Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican inner-city.

BackgroundThe United States is experiencing a continuing crisis of gun violence, and economically marginalized and racially segregated inner-city areas are among the most affected. To decrease this violence, public health interventions must engage with the complex social factors and structural drivers-especially with regard to the clandestine sale of narcotics-that have turned the neighborhood streets of specific vulnerable subgroups into concrete killing fields. Here we present a mixed-methods ethnographic and epidemiological assessment of narcotics-driven firearm violence in Philadelphia's impoverished, majority Puerto Rican neighborhoods.MethodsUsing an exploratory sequential study design, we formulated hypotheses about ethnic/racial vulnerability to violence, based on half a dozen years of intensive participant-observation ethnographic fieldwork. We subsequently tested them statistically, by combining geo-referenced incidents of narcotics- and firearm-related crime from the Philadelphia police department with census information representing race and poverty levels. We explored the racialized relationships between poverty, narcotics, and violence, melding ethnography, graphing, and Poisson regression.FindingsEven controlling for poverty levels, impoverished majority-Puerto Rican areas in Philadelphia are exposed to significantly higher levels of gun violence than majority-white or black neighborhoods. Our mixed methods data suggest that this reflects the unique social position of these neighborhoods as a racial meeting ground in deeply segregated Philadelphia, which has converted them into a retail endpoint for the sale of astronomical levels of narcotics.ImplicationsWe document racial/ethnic and economic disparities in exposure to firearm violence and contextualize them ethnographically in the lived experience of community members. The exceptionally concentrated and high-volume retail narcotics trade, and the violence it generates in Philadelphia's poor Puerto Rican neighborhoods, reflect unique structural vulnerability and cultural factors. For most young people in these areas, the narcotics economy is the most readily accessible form of employment and social mobility. The performance of violence is an implicit part of survival in these lucrative, illegal narcotics markets, as well as in the overcrowded jails and prisons through which entry-level sellers cycle chronically. To address the structural drivers of violence, an inner-city Marshall Plan is needed that should include well-funded formal employment programs, gun control, re-training police officers to curb the routinization of brutality, reform of criminal justice to prioritize rehabilitation over punishment, and decriminalization of narcotics possession and low-level sales

A comparative review of palliative care development in six countries represented by the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC)

Palliative care development and services were reviewed in the region represented by the six members of the Middle East Cancer Consortium: Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey. The multimethod review synthesized evidence from ethnographic field visits to inpatient units, home care hospice teams and free-standing hospices, including interviews with hospice and palliative care clinicians, administrators, volunteers, policy makers and academic researchers. Public health data and relevant literature were collated together with internet-accessed information on services and health care systems. A total of 69 services were located; two country members have a history of relatively sustained development of hospice and palliative care, but provision across the Middle East Cancer Consortium region is highly variable at a local level. Considerable barriers to service development were identified in a region already struggling with many military and political conflicts. Key problems are a lack of secure funds and government support, inadequate professional training programs, opioid phobia in professionals and the public, and a lack of awareness and understanding of palliative care needs at public, government, and professional levels. Key areas for further attention were increasing national and international professional training and public education programs, improving opioid legislation and health care policies, negotiating for secure government or health insurance funding provision, raising awareness about the need for pediatric services and for patients with other illnesses, as well as for those with cancer, and working to integrate palliative care into mainstream health service provision and education