This article analyses how families and communities in Shan State, Myanmar, have responded to rising youth drug use, and the impacts that these responses have on young people. It first examines the factors that have caused drug production and drug use amongst youth in Shan State to increase over the past three decades and places these phenomena in the context of wider political and economic transformations that have shaped Myanmar's borderlands since the late 1980s. Drug-related harms among Shan youth have overwhelmed family and community coping mechanisms in a context where state responses have been ineffective and inadequate. Consequently, families have resorted to increasingly desperate ways to try to protect young family members from drug use. This article focuses on two responses. First, the decision by rural families to send sons and daughters away to big cities or to neighbouring countries to avoid the local drug environment. Second, the decision to send children experiencing drug harms to treatment centres operated by ethnic armed organisations. Both responses, this article argues, expose young people to new forms of vulnerability. Finally, the article reflects on some of the challenges the drug problem poses for government and communities, and offers suggestions for alternative responses.

Examining the archaeological findings within the Mannaean kingdom, a significant association with Assyria emerges, highlighting these regions’ interconnectedness. The influence of both Urartian and Assyrian cultures on the Mannaean people becomes evident, indicating a shared cultural heritage or intimate exchanges among these cultures. Notably, the Kani Charmou graveyard in Mannaea serves as a compelling example, revealing a rich assortment of artifacts that parallel those discovered in Ziwiye, a renowned archaeological site in the region. These diverse grave goods unequivocally demonstrate the existence of a robust trade and exchange network between Mannaea and its neighbouring western counterpart, Assyria, and the profound impact of Assyrian culture on Mannaean society. This connection is also evident in religious practices, which show similarities. Through stylistic analysis and the identification of parallels in metal vessels, glazed jars, and a cylinder seal, the proposed dating of the Kani Charmou graveyard aligns with the Iron Age II period.

While Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLPs) have improved the health and well-being of the people they serve, most healthcare institutions will only invest in an MLP if they are convinced that doing so will improve its balance sheet. This article offers a detailed estimation of the cost savings that an MLP targeted toward the most acute legal needs would accrue to an academic medical center (AMC) in North Carolina.

Due to the contamination from omnipresent interstellar 21 cm emission, atomic hydrogen (H <sc>i</sc>) associated with planetary nebulae (PNe) has been insufficiently investigated. In this proceeding we report a project of searching for H i surrounding PNe using the Five hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), which is the most sensitive single-dish telescope at L-band. The observations may offer new insights into the interaction processes between PNe and the interstellar medium.

Entrepris au début des années 2000, les travaux de restauration du bâtiment qui abritait les prisons de l’Inquisition de Palerme à l’époque moderne ont permis la redécouverte et l’étude historienne d’une impressionnante série de graffiti. Avec son livre, Del Santo Uffizio in Sicilia e delle sue carceri, Giovanna Fiume propose une riche synthèse de travaux individuels et collectifs qu’elle a consacrés à ces archives murales du tribunal palermitain. En faisant dialoguer l’histoire des procédures et l’histoire matérielle de la réclusion, elle parvient à identifier les auteurs possibles des inscriptions et des dessins exposés sur les parois des cellules. Elle met ainsi en lumière des trajectoires de prisonniers et des expériences de l’enfermement que les actes judiciaires taisent souvent. Ces graffiti offrent en effet une nouvelle strate documentaire pour mieux comprendre le système judiciaire, pénal et carcéral de l’Inquisition. Plus largement, cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans le sillage d’une efflorescence de recherches récentes, à la confluence des études littéraires, de l’anthropologie et de l’histoire de l’art, dédiées aux prisons et aux graffiti, qui s’intéressent tout à la fois à la dimension patrimoniale et scientifique, esthétique et ethnographique de ces empreintes graphiques. Cette note critique en propose une lecture et un état des lieux, comme autant de pistes méthodologiques et historiographiques pour documenter la vie sociale et intellectuelle à l’intérieur des prisons.