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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims There are currently no brief quantitative assessments that capture the drug patterns of people who engage in use of more than one drug on the same day or simultaneously. The current study examined the retest reliability, acceptability and feasibility of a new quantitative assessment to measure polysubstance use.
Amanda M. Bunting +7 more
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The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America [PDF]
, 2018 In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in rural areas.
Monnat, Shannon M, Rigg, Khary K
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Incidence and severity of opioid‐associated skin and soft‐tissue infections, often requiring intensive and costly medical care, have increased substantially since the emergence of xylazine in the US drug supply. Although progress has been made in clinical and harm reduction recommendations for treating xylazine‐related ...
Danielle German +9 more
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Two cases of feline pyothorax : medical versus surgical treatment and associated challenges [PDF]
, 2017 Pyothorax is a rare disease in cats. Underlying causes and treatment recommendations vary greatly between cases. In this case series, the management of two challenging cases of feline pyothorax is discussed.
Bosmans, Tim +7 more
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Historical trends in self‐reported US heroin initiation
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Illegal opioids create challenges for public health and safety. There is imperfect understanding of when use of illegally manufactured opioids increased. This paper examined data on self‐reported year of first heroin use in the United States. Design Secondary analysis of general population survey data. Setting United States.
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Bishu Giri
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Nitazenes are a novel subclass of synthetic opioids that have been increasingly implicated in the United States (US) overdose crisis. Despite their growing presence in the illicit drug supply, national trends have not been systematically evaluated.
David T. Zhu +3 more
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Evidence regarding the impacts of supervised drug consumption services (SDC) remains mixed, and few evaluations have used individual‐level, linkable health data to examine service withdrawal. In September 2024, the Red Deer overdose prevention site (OPS) in Alberta, Canada, was scheduled for closure, with operations ceasing
Nathaniel Day +10 more
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What anabolic–androgenic steroids reveal about the limits of current harm reduction models
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Harm reduction has largely been shaped by responses to psychoactive drug use where the most urgent harms are acute. These models focus on overdose, blood‐borne viruses, and rapid‐onset toxicity related harms. When applied wholesale to anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS), they obscure the distinctive pharmacology, consumer typologies,
Timothy Piatkowski +2 more
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A comparative study of different induction techniques (Propofol-Placebo, Propofol-Ephedrine and Propofol- Placebo-Crystalloid) on intubating conditions after rocuronium administration [PDF]
, 2007 This was a prospective randomized double blind controlled study to compare intubating conditions at 60 seconds with rocuronium 0.6 mg/kg by using three different induction techniques: propofol-placebo (PP), propofol-ephedrine (PE) and propofol ...
Karis Misiran,, Muhd Helmi Azmi,
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