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Heroin and its metabolites: relevance to heroin use disorder
Translational Psychiatry, 2023 Heroin is an opioid agonist commonly abused for its rewarding effects. Since its synthesis at the end of the nineteenth century, its popularity as a recreational drug has ebbed and flowed.
Michele Stanislaw Milella +5 more
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Toots, tastes and tester shots: user accounts of drug sampling methods for gauging heroin potency
Harm Reduction Journal, 2018 Background Internationally, overdose is the primary cause of death among people injecting drugs. However, since 2001, heroin-related overdose deaths in the United States (US) have risen sixfold, paralleled by a rise in the death rate attributed to ...
Sarah G. Mars +2 more
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Heroin-induced headache in female heroin addicts [PDF]
Journal of International Medical Research, 2020 Objective To investigate the manifestations and incidence of headaches caused by heroin in Chinese women. Methods This was a survey study conducted from 29 June to 3 July 2015 with women attending the Shanxi Drug Rehabilitation Centre for Women (China ...
Li Li, Shengyuan Yu
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The societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.An analytic model was created that included incarceration
Ruixuan Jiang +3 more
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The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction
Annual Review of Public Health, 2015 Thomas W Clark, G Caleb Alexander
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Heroin and Methamphetamine Injection: An Emerging Drug Use Pattern
Substance Use and Misuse, 2017 Alia A Al-Tayyib +2 more
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Sold as Heroin: Perceptions and Use of an Evolving Drug in Baltimore, MD
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2018 Sarah G Mars +2 more
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Injury Prevention, 2021 Reports from active drug users state that xylazine, the veterinary tranquilliser, has been increasing in the illicit drug supply in Philadelphia. To describe trends and characteristics of unintentional deaths from heroin and/or fentanyl overdose with ...
Jewell Johnson +3 more
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The association between chronic heroin smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2021 Introduction: Little is known about the correlation between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heroin smoking. Heroin smoking is a recent underinvestigated problem.
Ahmad Naoras Bitar +4 more
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Toxics, 2023 We have examined the effects of four different polyphenols in attenuating heroin addiction using a conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm. Adult male Sprague Dawley rats received heroin (alternating with saline) in escalating doses starting from 10 ...
Shaimaa ElShebiney +4 more
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