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Factors associated with crack-cocaine early initiation: a Brazilian multicenter study
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Crack-cocaine dependence is a serious public health issue, related to several psychiatric and psychosocial problems. Crack-cocaine users are usually embedded in a context of great social vulnerability, often associated with violence, poverty ...
Luciane Ogata Perrenoud +6 more
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Science of the Total Environment, 2022 Already in early 2000s, concerns have been growing in the EU about increasing use of cocaine and it is estimated that below 1 % of the population administer the drug by smoking crack cocaine.
R. Steenbeek +17 more
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Adulterants in crack cocaine in Brazil [PDF]
Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2019 Abstract Introduction Brazil is the world’s biggest consumer of crack cocaine, and dependence is a major public health issue. This is the first study to investigate the prevalence of potentially harmful adulterants present in hair samples from Brazilian patients with crack cocaine dependence.
Marcelo Ribeiro +10 more
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Cannabidiol for the treatment of crack-cocaine craving: an exploratory double-blind study
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 Objective: To assess the efficacy of cannabidiol (CBD) in the management of crack-cocaine craving and the treatment of frequent withdrawal symptoms.
Carolina de Meneses-Gaya +7 more
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Immunotoxicity of Cocaine and Crack
Current Drug Abuse Reviewse, 2011 The toxicity of cocaine and crack was studied on the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis, using several endpoints, such as the DNA content of the macronuclei and the phagocytic ability. Both forms induced an increase in the DNA content of the protozoan, which indicates the stimulation of the mitotic process.
Stefanidou, M. +3 more
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A Severe Complication of Crack Cocaine Use [PDF]
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2015 The present report describes a 48-year-old woman with a history of recurrent ‘crack’ cocaine use, who developed progressive shortness of breath over a period of years.
Gokul Vidyasankar +3 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2017 Summary: Crack cocaine users represent a target group for hepatitis B vaccination. We evaluate the HBV epidemiology, immunization status and compliance with a super-accelerated vaccination schedule among in-treatment crack cocaine users in central Brazil.
Leandro N. da Silva +9 more
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Crack Cocaine and Infectious Tuberculosis
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008 We hypothesize that crack cocaine is independently associated with smear-positive tuberculosis (TB). In a case–control study of TB in London, 19 (86%) of 22 crack cocaine users with pulmonary TB were smear positive compared with 302 (36%) of 833 non–drug
Alistair Story +2 more
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Multiple Gastrointestinal Complications of Crack Cocaine Abuse [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2014 Cocaine and its alkaloid free base “crack-cocaine” have long since been substances of abuse. Drug abuse of cocaine via oral, inhalation, intravenous, and intranasal intake has famously been associated with a number of medical complications.
Neal Carlin +2 more
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Smoked cocaine in socially-depressed areas
Harm Reduction Journal, 2010 Background The main objectives of this study are to describe the smoked cocaine user's profile in socially-depressed areas and their needs from a harm-reduction perspective, to investigate their use of smoking crack and compare the acute effects between ...
Díaz Olga +5 more
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