Understanding Sexual Abstinence in African American Teens [PDF]
, 2006 Purpose: To explore the perspectives of teenage girls on how life contexts influenced sexuality and sexual abstinence. Study Design and Methods: A qualitative descriptive study with a convenience sample of 14 sexually abstinent African American ...
Haglund, Kristin
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Comparison of Abstinence and Coital Frequency Between 2 Natural Methods of Family Planning [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction The length of periodic abstinence, due to overestimation of the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle, is often a cause for dissatisfaction, discontinuation, and user error with natural family planning (NFP) methods.
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Changes of frontal cortical subregion volumes in alcohol dependent individuals during early abstinence: associations with treatment outcome. [PDF]
, 2020 We previously reported that at 1-and-4 weeks of sobriety, those who relapsed after treatment demonstrated significantly smaller total frontal cortical volume than individuals who maintained abstinence for at least 12 months post treatment.
Durazzo, Timothy C, Meyerhoff, Dieter J
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Addiction, 2019 Background and aim It is useful, for theoretical and practical reasons, to be able to specify functions for continuous abstinence over time in smoking cessation attempts.
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FENOMEN APSTINENCIJE U DEMOKRATSKIM IZBORIMA S OSVRTOM NA OPĆE IZBORE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI // PHENOMENON OF ABSTINENCE IN DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [PDF]
Historijski pogledi, 2020 Abstinence is a conscious and voluntary waiver of one original political right, the right to vote. Often, the very act of abstinence is understood as a kind of election, as an expression of disagreement with political alternatives, candidates and parties
Amir Ahmetović
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Stress, 2023 Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dynamics are disrupted by opioids and may be involved in substance abuse; this persists during withdrawal and abstinence and is associated with co-morbid sleep disruption leading to vulnerability to relapse.
Hershel Raff +4 more
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Brain systems in cocaine abstinence-induced anxiety-like behavior in rodents: A review
Addiction Neuroscience, 2022 Cocaine use disorder (CUD) is a significant public health issue that generates substantial personal, familial, and economic burdens. Still, there are no FDA-approved pharmacotherapies for CUD.
Britton R. Barbee, Shannon L. Gourley
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PhysiologiaBackground: A sexually active lifestyle is generally associated with positive effects on physical condition and health. However, engaging in sexual activity prior to a sports competition could affect athletic performance.
Diego Fernández-Lázaro +5 more
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Modeling neurocognitive and neurobiological recovery in addiction [PDF]
, 2019 This book focuses on "what to know" and "how to apply" information, prioritizing novel principles and delineating cutting-edge assessment, phenotyping and treatment ...
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White Matter Changes in HIV+ Women with a History of Cocaine Dependence
Frontiers in Neurology, 2017 Cocaine use is associated with the transmission of human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus through risky sexual behavior. In HIV+ individuals, cocaine use is linked with poor health outcomes, including HIV-medication non-adherence and faster disease ...
Kathryn-Mary Wakim +9 more
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