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DRUG PARAPHERNALIA [6 records]

Record 1 2024-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
DEF

Use the same drug injection equipment by two or more persons.

PHR

share drug injection equipment, share drug injection paraphernalia, share needles, share syringes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
DEF

Utiliser le même matériel d'injection de drogues par deux personnes ou plus.

PHR

partager des aiguilles, partager des seringues, partager du matériel d'injection de drogues

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
DEF

The use of the same drug injection equipment by two or more persons.

PHR

drug injection equipment sharing, drug injection paraphernalia sharing, needle sharing, syringe sharing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
DEF

Utilisation du même matériel d'injection de drogues par deux personnes ou plus.

PHR

partage d'aiguilles, partage de matériel d'injection de drogues, partage de seringues

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
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Record 3 2024-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Syringe access programs operate with the primary goal of providing injection drug users with new, sterile injection equipment as a means of reducing the spread of blood-borne viruses and other injection-related infections. In addition, there has traditionally been an emphasis placed on simultaneously removing used injection equipment from circulation through a process of exchanging old syringes for new ones.

Key term(s)
  • used drug injecting paraphernalia
  • used drug injecting equipment
  • used injecting paraphernalia
  • used injecting equipment
  • dirty drug injecting paraphernalia
  • dirty drug injecting equipment
  • dirty injecting paraphernalia
  • dirty injecting equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

[...] certaines situations qui surviennent dans la trajectoire de consommation peuvent provoquer l'utilisation de matériel d'injection usagé.

OBS

Le matériel d'injection comprend les seringues et les aiguilles, ainsi que les filtres, de l'eau stérile et les contenants pour dissoudre et chauffer la drogue.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

In addition to needles and syringes, drug injection equipment includes cookers/spoons or drug mixing containers, filters, acidifiers, sterile water, dry swabs and alcohol swabs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

Le matériel d'injection neuf disponible dans les centres d'accès au matériel d'injection comprend entre autres : des seringues; de l'eau stérile; des filtres; des contenants pour dissoudre et chauffer la drogue; des contenants pour la récupération de seringues usagées.

Spanish

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Record 5 2024-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Programs (Canadian)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
OBS

Drug Identification provides knowledge and skills to identify eleven common, illegally used street drugs, including fentanyl, PCP [phencyclidine], and ecstasy, that monopolize the drug scene in communities across Canada. In addition to reviewing appearance, street names, and paraphernalia related to these drugs, this course explores the psychological and physiological effects of these drugs on users.

OBS

Content for this course was provided by the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes nationaux canadiens
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
OBS

Le cours Identification des drogues fournit les connaissances et les compétences voulues pour identifier 11 drogues utilisées illégalement – dont le fentanyl, le PCP [phencyclidine] et l'ecstasy – qui dominent le milieu de la drogue dans les collectivités canadiennes. En plus d'aborder la forme qu'elles prennent, le nom qu'on leur donne dans la rue et l'attirail lié à leur consommation, le cours explore les effets psychologiques et physiologiques qu'elles produisent chez les consommateurs.

OBS

Le contenu de ce cours est fourni par la GRC [Gendarmerie royale du Canada].

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Security is responsible for the conduct of unannounced searches for alcohol, drugs or drug paraphernalia on company-owned or controlled premises.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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