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Regional perspectives: Substance use related problems in Ethiopia

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethiopia, with a population exceeding 130 million, presents a complex landscape for understanding substance use disorders. The country's diverse cultural heritage, varying regional practices, and evolving socioeconomic conditions create unique factors of substance use that differ markedly from global trends.
Tesfa M. Yimer, Wubalem Fekadu, Janni Leung, Awoke Mihretu, Solomon Teferra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of amphetamines illegally produced in Serbia [PDF]

Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2008
Forensic practice in the Republic of Serbia faced the illegal production of amphetamine for the first time in 2003. This paper presents the results of the chemical characterization of 32 batches of amphetamine samples from three separate cases, for the ...
Nevešćanin Marina, Banović-Stević Sonja, Petrović Slobodan, Vajs Vlatka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cannabis use and hypomania in young people: a prospective analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Cannabis use in young people is common and associated with psychiatric disorders. However, the prospective link between cannabis use and bipolar disorder symptoms has rarely been investigated.
Bebbington, Paul, Marwaha, Steven, Smith, Daniel, Winsper, Catherine   +3 more
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A call for action: Closing the evidence gap in management of stimulant‐induced psychosis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Stimulant‐induced psychosis (StIP) is emerging as one of most pressing health challenges. Over the past two decades, stimulant‐related harms and psychiatric care demands have risen sharply. Individuals with StIP often present with severe agitation and high suicide risk, and up to half progress to chronic psychotic illness within two
Anne Bouthillier, Heidar Sharafi, Adam Bisaga, Didier Jutras‐Aswad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methods for GC/MS Analysis of the Most Commonly Seized Drugs of Abuse and Their Metabolites in Biological Samples

Chemosensors
Gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a common analytical technique used for identifying and quantifying drugs of abuse, as well as their metabolites, extracted from biological samples. Depending on the properties of the analyzed compounds,
Ivan Kojić, Violeta M. Đurović, Yulia A. Smyatskaya, Nemanja Brkljača, Angi E. Skhvediani, Andrey V. Vasin, Ksenija Stojanović, Saša D. Đurović   +7 more
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The Five Factor Model of personality and evaluation of drug consumption risk

, 2017
The problem of evaluating an individual's risk of drug consumption and misuse is highly important. An online survey methodology was employed to collect data including Big Five personality traits (NEO-FFI-R), impulsivity (BIS-11), sensation seeking (ImpSS)
A. Terracciano, A.N. Gorban, A.N. Gorban, A.N. Kopstein, C.A. Ventura, D.N. Gujarati, D.W. Hosmer Jr, D.W. Scott, E.M. Mirkes, E.M. Mirkes, F. Bulut, G. Biau, G.P. McCabe, H.F. Kaiser, I.D. Dinov, J. Hoare, J.R. Quinlan, K. Pearson, K.L. Clarkson, L. Guttman, M. Linting, M. Zuckerman, M.J. Cleveland, M.S. Stanford, P.T. Costa, Q. Li, R. Beaglehole, R.A. Fisher, R.R. McCrae, S. Arlot, S. Russell, S. Valeroa, S.Y. Lee, T. Bogg, T. Hastie, T. Hastie, V. Egan, Y. Benjamini, Y. Koren   +38 more
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Substance use in the club scene of Rome : a pilot study [PDF]

, 2014
Date of Acceptance: 28/08/2014 Copyright © 2014 Alessandro Emiliano Vento et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium ...
Acciavatti, Tiziano, Bonifaci, Ludovica, Carrus, Dario, Chillemi, Eleonora, Cinosi, Eduardo, Corazza, Ornella, di Giannantonio, Massimo, Lupi, Matteo, Martinotti, Giovanni, Santacroce, Rita, Schifano, Fabrizio, Vento, Alessandro   +11 more
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High temporal resolution monitoring of illicit drug consumption across England via wastewater analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To monitor community‐level consumption of 20 illicit drugs across urban areas of England using wastewater‐based epidemiology (WBE) surveillance at high temporal resolution. Design, setting, cases This study was conducted over a 12‐month period in 2022 sampling 24‐hour composite wastewater samples at 15 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs ...
Helena Rapp‐Wright, Keng Tiong Ng, Derryn Grant, William Francis, Margarita White, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Yuxing Liu, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Sofia Zafeiratou, Dylan Wood, Chryshanthi Christy, Stav Friedman, Timothy W. Gant, Klea Katsouyanni, Leon P. Barron   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms of amphetamine action illuminated through optical monitoring of dopamine synaptic vesicles in Drosophila brain

Nature Communications, 2016
Amphetamines are known to enhance extracellular dopamine levels, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Utilising a new pH biosensor for synaptic vesicles, the authors show that amphetamines diminish vesicle pH gradients, disrupting dopamine ...
Zachary Freyberg, Mark S. Sonders, Jenny I. Aguilar, Takato Hiranita, Caline S. Karam, Jorge Flores, Andrea B. Pizzo, Yuchao Zhang, Zachary J. Farino, Audrey Chen, Ciara A. Martin, Theresa A. Kopajtic, Hao Fei, Gang Hu, Yi-Ying Lin, Eugene V. Mosharov, Brian D. McCabe, Robin Freyberg, Kandatege Wimalasena, Ling-Wei Hsin, Dalibor Sames, David E. Krantz, Jonathan L. Katz, David Sulzer, Jonathan A. Javitch   +24 more
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Comparative effectiveness, safety and acceptability of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: A network meta‐analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim Our primary aim was to conduct a network meta‐analysis (NMA) for the effectiveness, safety and acceptability of all psychosocial interventions and all pharmacotherapies for cannabis use disorder (CUD). Methods We conducted a NMA of studies identified from two completed systematic reviews examining the effectiveness, safety and ...
Monika Halicka, Francesca Spiga, Tom P. Freeman, Suzanne Nielsen, Jelena Savović, Julian P. T. Higgins, Deborah M. Caldwell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source