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The attitudes of heroin users and matched non-users to drugs and drug users
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1991Compared with matched controls, heroin users were more tolerant of substance use and perceived themselves as slightly more unemployed, depressed, neat and aggressive. Both groups thought crack cocaine, heroin and alcohol dangerous. Heroin users were most in favour of cannabis, followed by controls who had used cannabis, with only controls who had never
A D, Paterson, R, Hammersley
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The Exploitation of Drug Users
Substance Use & Misuse, 2015Drug users have been exploited in research studies and clinical practice. We explore ways in which exploitation has occurred and strategies to help patients, research subjects and communities to prevent or avoid exploitation.
Shirley, Stallings, Michael, Montagne
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British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1971
Scores on the PEN Inventory were obtained from four groups of drug‐users. They were compared with scores from a group of apprentices who had completed the Inventory non‐anonymously rather than the normative data, as the latter were obtained anonymously, and it was found that this factor significantly elevated P (‘psychoticism ...
J D, Teasdale, T, Segraves, J, Zacune
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Scores on the PEN Inventory were obtained from four groups of drug‐users. They were compared with scores from a group of apprentices who had completed the Inventory non‐anonymously rather than the normative data, as the latter were obtained anonymously, and it was found that this factor significantly elevated P (‘psychoticism ...
J D, Teasdale, T, Segraves, J, Zacune
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1995
The rise in tuberculosis (TB) has disproportionately affected specific populations. Historically, many patients with TB became iatrogenic opiate addicts through therapeutic use of these drugs for symptom control. Demographic trends reshaped the relationship between drug use and TB into one in which drug use became a risk factor for tuberculosis as a ...
D C, Perlman +5 more
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The rise in tuberculosis (TB) has disproportionately affected specific populations. Historically, many patients with TB became iatrogenic opiate addicts through therapeutic use of these drugs for symptom control. Demographic trends reshaped the relationship between drug use and TB into one in which drug use became a risk factor for tuberculosis as a ...
D C, Perlman +5 more
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Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1973
The increasing incidence of drug-addicted adults has resulted in a more visible group of children born of them. These children are the product of a special experience. Some have had intrauterine exposure to addictive drugs from the time of their conception. Many have had to experience withdrawal symptoms at birth.
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The increasing incidence of drug-addicted adults has resulted in a more visible group of children born of them. These children are the product of a special experience. Some have had intrauterine exposure to addictive drugs from the time of their conception. Many have had to experience withdrawal symptoms at birth.
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Estimation of drug users and injecting drug users in Malaysia
2005Malaysia treats the problem of drug addiction as a security issue. Since it was identified in the early 70s, the number of drug addicts is constantly on the rise. At present, the government provides all statistics pertaining to the number of drug users, abusers and addicts in the country.The monograph contains the full report that was submitted to the ...
Mohamed, Mahmood Nazar +3 more
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Servicing the Drug User and the Drug User Treatment Support System
International Journal of the Addictions, 1981Using a sample of male and female Israeli street polydrug users who were involved with a broad service support system, this paper analyzes and discusses the implications of meeting their multiple needs when delivery of care is the responsibility of specialized drug user treatment agencies.
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Fungal infections in drug users
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1991Fungal infections may account for 5-50% of serious infections in intravenous drug users, and for 5-50 per 100,000 hospital admissions. The fungi most commonly encountered are Candida and Aspergillus spp. Candidosis may be disseminated, with lesions in superficial structures, the eye and the skeletal system, or limited to the eye, the heart (as ...
C L, Leen, R P, Brettle
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Fever in an intravenous drug user
BMJ, 2016A 29 year old intravenous drug user presented to the acute medical unit feeling generally unwell. On clinical examination he was found to be in septic shock with a fever of 39.2°C. A septic screen was performed and broad spectrum antibiotics started empirically. Staphylococcus aureus was grown in both blood culture bottles after one day.
Jennifer, van Griethuysen +1 more
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Users: Service Users and the Drug User Movement
2010In April 2006 a group of illegal drug user activists from around the world met at the 17th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in Vancouver, Canada. Together they produced a ‘statement about the international network of people who use drugs’, a document that is, in effect, an international declaration of drug users’ rights ...
Alex Mold, Virginia Berridge
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