Nicholas Lassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4030664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Lassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Lassi |
| SIGNATURE | LASSI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwest University of Political Science & Law |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2500-9138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Etomidate‐Adulterated Vaping
A decade of China’s health silk road
The tenth anniversary of China’s Health Silk Road (HSR) offers a timely opportunity to review its contributions and challenges in advancing global health governance and international public health cooperation. As important health-related global public goods (GPGs), the HSR has sought to promote equitable access to health resources, reduce disparities among partner countries, and strengthen international collaboration in line with the UN Sustainab…
Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge
The Future of Deadly Synthetic Opioids
Nitazenes, a class of highly potent illicit synthetic opioids, represent an escalating global public health threat due to their increasing consumption and rising occurrence of overdose mortality connected with their use. This study evaluates the dangers posed by nitazenes, details gaps in their current international and national regulatory and enforcement measures, and proposes solutions to diminish their impact. Focusing on China and India, the …
The Threat of Fentanyl‐Based Counterfeits in Mexican Pharmacies
Pharmacists are perceived as protectors of public health, advancing trust in pharmacies and the drugs provided. However, this trust is often misplaced in Mexico, where pharmacists frequently dispense dangerous fentanyl‐based counterfeits without prescription orders and on‐demand. The convergence of four trends occurring in Mexico—the influx of international tourists seeking pharmaceuticals without prescription orders, increased domestic consumpti…
Extraversion and low introversion more equivalent to high introversion in depression during Covid ‐19
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether forms of extraversion-introversion produced different depression-related outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: One-way MANCOVAs were conducted to investigate the relationship between extraversion-introversion and depressive symptoms. These data were sourced from the NLSY97, consisting of 4846 individuals born between 1980 and 1984. RESULTS: During pre-pandemic periods, high introversi…
Durkheimian insights into the evolution of Chinese punitiveness
When the reasons for excessive legal punitiveness are better understood, strategies can be developed to reduce and prevent it. Émile Durkheim thought legal punitiveness rises when government power is more concentrated and unchecked. He also thought that legal punitiveness decreases as societies shift from a 'mechanical' stage, marked by insularity, ritualism, and limited social and occupational development, to an 'organic' stage, defined by an in…
Fentanyl's potential impact on public health in India and China
This study reviewed and compared fentanyl's potential impact on public health in India and China, two nations linked to its production and distribution. A comparison of China and India's governance structures, historical experiences with opioids, ideologies, and drug policies on the potential for domestic fentanyl use showed that fentanyl will likely become a more significant threat to Indian society. India's relatively weak governance, historica…
From poppy to pill
The production of illicit synthetic drugs has undergone a significant shift from China to the Golden Triangle, profoundly impacting Southeast Asia's legal systems, drug enforcement and public health. This paper reviews the production, distribution and use of illicit synthetic drugs in the region, explaining their alignment with regulatory policies in China and Southeast Asia. The public health effects resulting from the increased production and u…
The power of books
Drug Dispensation by ‘Signature Pharmacists’ in South Asia
The phenomenon of ‘signature pharmacists’ in South Asia has allowed allopathic prescription medication to be dispensed without the necessary medical knowledge, specifically of drug interactions, dosages and side effects. This practice, in which qualified pharmacists delegate their professional inputs to often unqualified and unsupervised sales staff, persists due to complicity among pharmacists, other healthcare professionals and regulatory offic…
Can Confucian Ritual Improve Mediation
Mediation often fails because disputants scheme, lie, and become emotionally untethered. Productive mediation requires cooperation, self-possession, and a degree of sincerity among disputants. Improving the capacity of disputants to engage harmoniously to achieve resolution is essential, as discussed in the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the Singapore Mediation Convention). Confucius bel…
Pakistan’s Opioid Squeeze
This study examines how the Taliban’s opium poppy eradication edict and the westward shift in illicit fentanyl production from China to India potentiates an opioid squeeze on Pakistan from its east-west flanks, influencing Pakistan’s opioid production, distribution and use. As opioid output sputters in Afghanistan, while Indian chemists increasingly normalise illicit fentanyl production in South Asia, opportunistic Pakistani chemists will be ince…
Incentivizing Narcotics Control Through China’s Belt and Road Initiative in South and Southeast Asia
The production and distribution of narcotics in many states in South and Southeast Asia present significant challenges for China. Several of these states receive foreign investments and assistance through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including a division of the BRI called the Health Silk Road (HSR). China has an opportunity to motivate these states to strengthen their narcotics control measures by adding conditionality clauses in the B…
Confucian Ritual and Reduced Deviancy among Young People
Combating illicit fentanyl
This study examines how Chinese drug regulations are shifting illicit fentanyl production from China to India. This change has implications for the law, drug enforcement, pharmaceutical industry, and public health, as domestic production increases domestic access to fentanyl, in India. An empirical examination of current trends in fentanyl production and use in the region is conducted, along with an exegesis of the legal and regulatory systems in…
A Criminological Test of Confucian Family Centrism
The present study analyzes how Confucian family centrism influences criminality within society. In many ways Confucian culture is Chinese culture, so to understand Confucian crime control practices is to understand China. Material relating to crime prevention was filtered out of prominent Confucian texts, and it was then evaluated and tested using NLSY97 data. The data was obtained from the first wave of responses produced by the NLSY97, with a s…
Pakistan’s Opioid Squeeze
This study examines how the Taliban’s opium poppy eradication edict and the westward shift in illicit fentanyl production from China to India potentiates an opioid squeeze on Pakistan from its east-west flanks, influencing Pakistan’s opioid production, distribution and use. As opioid output sputters in Afghanistan, while Indian chemists increasingly normalise illicit fentanyl production in South Asia, opportunistic Pakistani chemists will be ince…
A Criminological Test of Confucian Family Centrism
The present study analyzes how Confucian family centrism influences criminality within society. In many ways Confucian culture is Chinese culture, so to understand Confucian crime control practices is to understand China. Material relating to crime prevention was filtered out of prominent Confucian texts, and it was then evaluated and tested using NLSY97 data. The data was obtained from the first wave of responses produced by the NLSY97, with a s…
Confucian Ritual and Reduced Deviancy among Young People
Combating illicit fentanyl
This study examines how Chinese drug regulations are shifting illicit fentanyl production from China to India. This change has implications for the law, drug enforcement, pharmaceutical industry, and public health, as domestic production increases domestic access to fentanyl, in India. An empirical examination of current trends in fentanyl production and use in the region is conducted, along with an exegesis of the legal and regulatory systems in…
Can Confucian Ritual Improve Mediation
Mediation often fails because disputants scheme, lie, and become emotionally untethered. Productive mediation requires cooperation, self-possession, and a degree of sincerity among disputants. Improving the capacity of disputants to engage harmoniously to achieve resolution is essential, as discussed in the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the Singapore Mediation Convention). Confucius bel…
Pakistan’s Opioid Squeeze
This study examines how the Taliban’s opium poppy eradication edict and the westward shift in illicit fentanyl production from China to India potentiates an opioid squeeze on Pakistan from its east-west flanks, influencing Pakistan’s opioid production, distribution and use. As opioid output sputters in Afghanistan, while Indian chemists increasingly normalise illicit fentanyl production in South Asia, opportunistic Pakistani chemists will be ince…
Incentivizing Narcotics Control Through China’s Belt and Road Initiative in South and Southeast Asia
The production and distribution of narcotics in many states in South and Southeast Asia present significant challenges for China. Several of these states receive foreign investments and assistance through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including a division of the BRI called the Health Silk Road (HSR). China has an opportunity to motivate these states to strengthen their narcotics control measures by adding conditionality clauses in the B…
Fentanyl's potential impact on public health in India and China
This study reviewed and compared fentanyl's potential impact on public health in India and China, two nations linked to its production and distribution. A comparison of China and India's governance structures, historical experiences with opioids, ideologies, and drug policies on the potential for domestic fentanyl use showed that fentanyl will likely become a more significant threat to Indian society. India's relatively weak governance, historica…
From poppy to pill
The production of illicit synthetic drugs has undergone a significant shift from China to the Golden Triangle, profoundly impacting Southeast Asia's legal systems, drug enforcement and public health. This paper reviews the production, distribution and use of illicit synthetic drugs in the region, explaining their alignment with regulatory policies in China and Southeast Asia. The public health effects resulting from the increased production and u…
The power of books
Drug Dispensation by ‘Signature Pharmacists’ in South Asia
The phenomenon of ‘signature pharmacists’ in South Asia has allowed allopathic prescription medication to be dispensed without the necessary medical knowledge, specifically of drug interactions, dosages and side effects. This practice, in which qualified pharmacists delegate their professional inputs to often unqualified and unsupervised sales staff, persists due to complicity among pharmacists, other healthcare professionals and regulatory offic…
A decade of China’s health silk road
The tenth anniversary of China’s Health Silk Road (HSR) offers a timely opportunity to review its contributions and challenges in advancing global health governance and international public health cooperation. As important health-related global public goods (GPGs), the HSR has sought to promote equitable access to health resources, reduce disparities among partner countries, and strengthen international collaboration in line with the UN Sustainab…
Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge
The Future of Deadly Synthetic Opioids
Nitazenes, a class of highly potent illicit synthetic opioids, represent an escalating global public health threat due to their increasing consumption and rising occurrence of overdose mortality connected with their use. This study evaluates the dangers posed by nitazenes, details gaps in their current international and national regulatory and enforcement measures, and proposes solutions to diminish their impact. Focusing on China and India, the …
The Threat of Fentanyl‐Based Counterfeits in Mexican Pharmacies
Pharmacists are perceived as protectors of public health, advancing trust in pharmacies and the drugs provided. However, this trust is often misplaced in Mexico, where pharmacists frequently dispense dangerous fentanyl‐based counterfeits without prescription orders and on‐demand. The convergence of four trends occurring in Mexico—the influx of international tourists seeking pharmaceuticals without prescription orders, increased domestic consumpti…
Extraversion and low introversion more equivalent to high introversion in depression during Covid ‐19
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether forms of extraversion-introversion produced different depression-related outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: One-way MANCOVAs were conducted to investigate the relationship between extraversion-introversion and depressive symptoms. These data were sourced from the NLSY97, consisting of 4846 individuals born between 1980 and 1984. RESULTS: During pre-pandemic periods, high introversi…
Durkheimian insights into the evolution of Chinese punitiveness
When the reasons for excessive legal punitiveness are better understood, strategies can be developed to reduce and prevent it. Émile Durkheim thought legal punitiveness rises when government power is more concentrated and unchecked. He also thought that legal punitiveness decreases as societies shift from a 'mechanical' stage, marked by insularity, ritualism, and limited social and occupational development, to an 'organic' stage, defined by an in…
Etomidate‐Adulterated Vaping
Political science (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · China (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Public health (5 works)