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ACUTE NARCOTIC DRUG INTOXICATIONS: ETIOLOGY, SEX/AGE DISTRIBUTION AND CLINICAL OUTCOME [PDF]

Journal of IMAB, 2017
Purpose: Poisoning with drugs is a serious medical and social problem worldwide. Retrospective analysis of acute poisoning with narcotic drugs had been performed in Varna region for 25 years (1991-2015).
Petko Marinov, Snezha Zlateva, Georgi Bonchev, Dobri Ivanov, Kaloyan Georgiev, Yulichka Sabeva, Marieta Yovcheva   +6 more
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Amphetamines for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults.

, 2011
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a childhood onset psychiatric disorder that can persist into adulthood in up to 50% of patients. From a clinical point of view, ADHD is characterized by hyperactivity, mood instability, irritability ...
Bosch R., Noguiera M., Castells X., Ramos-Quiroga J. A., Casas M.   +4 more
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Demographic Factors, Duration of Hospitalization, Costs of Hospitalization, and Cause of Death in Patients Intoxicated with Amphetamines and Opioids

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2011
Background: Poisoning is one of the most important medical emergencies. In recent years, prevalence of poisoning with opioids and stimulants, such as amphetamines, especially among young people is rising. In this study we investigated demographic factors,
Nastaran Izadi-Mood, Nirvana Tavahen, Gholam Reza Masoumi, Farzad Gheshlaghi, Zahra Dana Siadat, Mehrdad Setareh, Mohammad Reza Yazdani Ardestani   +6 more
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The clinical impact of recent amphetamine exposure in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundAmphetamines possess sympathomimetic properties that can affect cerebral vasculature though conflicting reports exist about their effect on vasospasm risk and clinical outcomes in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Jeffrey R. Vitt, Roger C. Cheng, Jason Chung, Travis Caton, Bo Zhou, Nerissa Ko, Karl Meisel, Edilberto Amorim   +7 more
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Chronic administration of amphetamines disturbs development of neural progenitor cells in young adult nonhuman primates [PDF]

, 2018
The detrimental effects of amphetamines on developmental stages of NPCs are limited to rodent brain and it is not known if these effects occur in nonhuman primates which are the focus of the current investigation.
Taffe, Michael A, Dutta, Rahul R, Rahul R. Dutta, Michael A. Taffe, Chitra D. Mandyam, Mandyam, Chitra D   +5 more
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Acute toxic leucoencephalopathy following protonitazene ingestion

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background Distribution of illicit counterfeit alprazolam containing the highly potent synthetic opioid‐receptor agonist protonitazene recently resulted in a number of severe overdoses in Ireland. We report three cases that presented to our hospital, within 6 weeks of one another, following ingestion of illicitly‐sourced alprazolam.
Ruadhan O'Laoi, Holly Acton, Pierce Kavanagh, Isabelle Hunt, Niall Sheehy, Cormac Kennedy   +5 more
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Drug Abuse: Distribution and Health Impact on Societies

Medical Journal of Babylon
Human wealth is considered the most precious wealth possessed by countries and is the real capital of nations because of this wealth’s potential to contribute to the building and development of society.
Sura Mouaid Abbas, Sabah Nuri Mizel, Nathier A. Ibrahim, Rzgar Faroog Rashi   +3 more
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Inclusion Complexations of Levamisole and Cocaine With Molecular Baskets. Fluorescence Displacement Assay for Detection of Cocaine and Its Adulterant Levamisole in Aqueous Media

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Levamisole is a common adulterant found in street‐distributed cocaine. Molecular baskets have been shown to form stable inclusion complexes with both substances. While levamisole inserts its benzene into the basket's cavity, cocaine utilizes its bicyclic ring for encapsulation.
Christopher T. Mortensen, Carson E. Ward, Nitesh Kumar, Logan Willemann, Ryan Lutz, Kailey Hughes, Zheng Zheng, Jovica D. Badjić   +7 more
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Wastewater analysis for nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, opioids and cannabis in New York City

Forensic Sciences Research, 2019
According to current surveys and overdoses data, there is a drug crisis in the USA. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an evolving discipline that analyses wastewater samples to detect drugs and metabolites to estimate drug consumption in a certain ...
Nicole Centazzo, Bonnie-Marie Frederick, Alethea Jacox, Shu-Yuan Cheng, Marta Concheiro-Guisan   +4 more
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Trends in property and illicit drug crime around the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross: 2012 update [PDF]

, 2013
Aim: The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) opened in Kings Cross in May 2001. This paper examines whether there have been: (i) increases in the volume of robbery, theft and illicit drug offences in Kings Cross Local Area Command (LAC) up until
Nicole Mahoney, Neil Donnelly
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