Because Iran's base of indigenous meth users is relatively small, production of the drug appears to be aimed exclusively at foreign markets, said the senior U.S. law enforcement official who tracks the Middle Eastern drug trade.
In contrast to this Euro-American process that conceptually transforms wild species into commodities or property, indigenous resource users in North America hold quite different conceptions.
Although the sample of Indigenous service users was smaller than anticipated our data were varied and included the perspectives of young women (both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders), multiparous and primiparous women, women partnered to Aboriginal men, and older women.
Either, developers 'encode the complex connectivity of Yolngu knowledge in the data structure… (or) do away with the attempt to hard wire the relationality into the database… collapse the metadata categories and create the conditions whereby Indigenous owner-users can learn to invoke and encode for themselves' (Christie 2005a, p. 61).
Similarly, studies in Australia and Canada have shown that Indigenous injecting drug users are over-represented in experiencing the harms associated with injecting drug use, including higher incidences of HIV and hepatitis C [ 4– 6].
For Objective 2, participants will be new prisoners, 18 40 years, Indigenous, heavy cannabis users (five or more days use on an average over the 3 months before prison), cannabis dependent and available to complete withdrawal symptom assessments on eight occasions over 28 days.
Users from indigenous tribes have received messages asking them to change their legal names to ones that do not "violate [the company's] standards".
A new report (pdf), written by the environmental journalist Fred Pearce, estimates that roughly 50% of our earth's land is subject to claims from customary land users including indigenous people.
Many jurisdictions were limited by the absence of recording of Indigenous status of service users, and some Quitline providers and cancer services were reticent to collect this information.
