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Illicit drug use is commonly associated with sudden death attributed to excited delirium syndrome. Many of these deaths occur during or shortly after a physical struggle. Excited delirium syndrome sequentially passes through four stages including hyperthermia (typically), delirium with agitation, respiratory arrest, and death. Illegal street drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and phencyclidine...
Despite mounting economic losses from both acute and chronic flood events in coastal areas of the U.S., little empirical research has been conducted on the importance of existing landscape-level ecological components in mitigating the economic impacts to vulnerable coastal communities over the long term. In recognition of this lack of knowledge base, we examine several ecological indicators across...
In this essay we argue that the rhetoric of Foss, Waters, and Armada's recent work on “agentic orientation,” as well as the rhetoric of the popular bestselling DVD and book The Secret, are typical of “magical voluntarism.” Magical voluntarism is an idealist understanding of human agency in which a subject can fulfill her needs and desires by simple wish‐fulfillment and the manipulation of symbols, irrelevant of structural constraint or material limitation. Embracing magical voluntarism, we argue, leads to narcissistic complacency, regressive infantilism, and elitist arrogance. A more materialist and dialectical understanding of agency is better....
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