In 2009, with the drug wars gathering force in the wake of the military-led offensive he launched against organized crime at the start of his term, then president Felipe Calderón urged the media to "say nice things" about the country.
Participants were approached from drug user gathering venues such as bars, night clubs, bathhouses, saunas, public parks, outdoor cruising areas, and HIV testing sites.
The availability of large known drug use gathering places and of officially registered IDUs in Lang Son permitted greater use of probability-based methods in Vietnam, while there was more reliance on peer recruitment in China.
Now a worldwide questionnaire, with media partners in 20 countries, it helps us find out more about drugs by gathering information directly from the people who use them.
By 2011, a federal criminal investigation into Armstrong's possible use of performance-enhancing drugs was gathering momentum, and former teammate Floyd Landis, in disclosing his own use of testosterone, blood transfusions and Erythropoietin, or EPO, had implicated Armstrong in similar deeds.
I love jotting down nonsensical snippets of conversation I overhear at music festivals, parties, and other drug-friendly gatherings.
Countervailing forces against neoliberal trade measures like the Colombia agreement, and other policies like the drug war, are gathering momentum across the hemisphere.
Plainclothes officers now covertly buy drugs almost daily, gathering intelligence for convictions.
Multinomial logistic regression model (Table 3) highlighted that choosing CBP as favorite source of information about drugs characteristics and always gathering information before administering the drug were significantly associated to no drugs use in presence of target symptoms, compared to NPD use without CBP supervision.
Admiral McRaven's goal is to recast the command from its popular image of commandos killing or capturing terrorists, and expand a force capable of carrying out a range of missions short of combat — including training foreign militaries to counter terrorists, drug traffickers and insurgents, gathering intelligence and assessing pending risk, and advising embassies on security.
As mentioned above, the prospective gathering of drug use facilitates unbiased risk estimates provided exposure is precisely defined by reference to a well-defined event with a clearly recognizable onset.
