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Drug Consumption Rooms

Imagine a health and social care service where people can use substances considered illicit – such as crack and heroin – without being judged or punished.

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Dutch drug policy regulation in a European context – the 1970s

Some would call the Netherlands “drugs paradise.” The Dutch approach towards the consumption and trade of drugs has yielded the country a stereotypical image of a too liberal nation. How …

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Qualitative data analysis software – positive and negative takes

I started doing research when cut and paste literally meant using scissors and glue. Coding (or categorizing) involved transcribing interviews that were recorded with a cassette tape. Then, by hand, …

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Living abroad

I just spoke to someone who asked me what it’s like to live outside Brazil. ‘It must be great to live in Europe!’she said. ‘Look, it depends,’I said. That’s a …

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Epistemology with beers

Two friends Decartex, a logical positivist, and Nietzchix, a post-modernist, both researchers in Development Studies, were walking along a Dutch canal, drinking Heinekens. As both were simply passionate for their …