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Low prevalence, low immunization and low adherence to full hepatitis B vaccine scheme and high-risk behaviors among crack cocaine users in central Brazil

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, Divânia D. da Silva França, Nativa H.A. Del-Rio, Megmar A. dos Santos Carneiro, Regina M.B. Martins, Rafael A. Guimarães, Raquel S. Pinheiro, Ana L.N. Junqueira, Karlla A.A. Caetano, Sheila A. Teles   +9 more
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Quality of life, social functioning, family structure, and treatment history associated with crack cocaine use in youth from the general population

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
Objective:To assess the relationship between crack cocaine use and dimensions of quality of life and social functioning in young adults.Methods:This was a cross-sectional, population-based study involving 1,560 participants in Pelotas, Brazil.
Joana C.M. Narvaez, Flávio Pechansky, Karen Jansen, Ricardo T. Pinheiro, Ricardo A. Silva, Flávio Kapczinski, Pedro V. Magalhães   +6 more
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Clinical periodontal diagnosis

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi, Andrea Roccuzzo, Jean‐Claude Imber, Alexandra Stähli, Björn Klinge, Niklaus P. Lang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internalizing and externalizing symptoms of crack-cocaine users

Psychologica, 2017
The present study aimed to analyse the psychopathological functioning of crack-cocaine users compared to the general population. It is a quantitative cross-sectional study.
Margareth da Silva Oliveira, Fernanda Cerutti, Fernanda de Almeida Ribeiro, Irani Iracema de Lima Argimon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treading the fine white line: cocaine trafficking [PDF]

, 2016
The illicit drug’s trade is a highly profitable business that grasps the interest of millions of people and equally affects millions of others. Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that plagues many countries.
McNicholl, S, O'Hagan, A
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Anhydroecgonine methyl ester (AEME), a cocaine pyrolysis product, impairs glutathione-related enzymes response and increases lipid peroxidation in the hippocampal cell culture

Toxicology Reports, 2019
Crack cocaine smokers inhale, alongside with cocaine, its pyrolysis product, anhydroecgonine methyl ester (AEME). We have previously described AEME neurotoxic effect and its additive effect when co-incubated with cocaine.
Raphael Caio Tamborelli Garcia, Larissa Lobo Torres, Livia Mendonça Munhoz Dati, Ana Paula de Melo Loureiro, Solange Castro Afeche, Maria Regina Lopes Sandoval, Tania Marcourakis   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Drug Illegality Beget Violence? Evidence from the Crack-Cocaine Wave in São Paulo

Economía, 2015
Mimicking the so-called great American crime decline, violent crime in the state of São Paulo dropped sharply in the 2000s after rising steadily throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
João M. P. De Mello
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Main mental disorders in crack-cocaine users treated at Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and Drugs in the city of Recife, Brazil

Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Introduction: Brazil's Northeast region has the highest crack-cocaine consumption in the country. Crack-cocaine has more intense effects than cocaine powder and can cause greater chemical dependence.
Antonio Gomes de Castro Neto, Diego César Nunes da Silva, Magda da Silva Figueiroa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of Symptoms in Patients Poisoned with Iranian Crack in Ahvaz Razi Hospital in 2008-2013 [PDF]

Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2017
Background: Crack is a strong and smoking form of cocaine, but Iranian crack is different from common crack cocaine, having symptoms and side effects similar to those of heroin.
Alihasan Rahmani, Leila Zeidooni, Azin Samimi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Class A drug abuse: an ophthalmologist's problem? [PDF]

, 2005
[First Paragraph] The 2002/3 British Crime Survey reported that 3% of all 16 to 59 year olds (equating to around one million people) had used a class A drug in the last year.
Firth, A.Y.
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