A Review on Hematological Factors in Opioid-Dependent People (Opium and Heroin) after the Withdrawal Period [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2010 Background: Long-term use of opioids has acute effects on homeostasis of the body. Discovering the impacts of opioids on hematological parameters of narcotics withdrawal and dependents blood may be helpful in recognizing the homeostasis condition
Tahereh Haghpanah +2 more
doaj
Predicting Opioid Use Outcomes in Minoritized Communities [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Machine learning algorithms can sometimes exacerbate health disparities based on ethnicity, gender, and other factors. There has been limited work at exploring potential biases within algorithms deployed on a small scale, and/or within minoritized communities.
arxiv
Heroin withdrawal as a possible cause of acute concomitant esotropia in adults [PDF]
, 2001 Aim: To report the possible effects of heroin withdrawal on binocular vision. Methods: To present a case series of patients in whom esotropia developed on cessation of heroin use.
Firth, A.Y.
core
The active heroin metabolite 6-acetylmorphine has robust reinforcing effects as assessed by self-administration in the rat [PDF]
, 2018 Previous studies have suggested that at least some of the behavioral effects of heroin might be mediated by its active metabolite 6-acetylmorphine (6-AM).
Andersen, Jannike M +6 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2019 Background: Heroin is currently contributing to the worst drug addiction epidemic in United States history; recent rates of use, dependence and death have also increased dramatically in parts of Europe.
Christina Marel +5 more
doaj
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Opioid use is a widespread epidemic, and traumatic stress exposure is a critical risk factor in opioid use and relapse. There is a significant gap in our understanding of how stress contributes to heroin use, and there are limited studies investigating ...
Nathaniel P. Stafford +5 more
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Diffusivity of the uncinate fasciculus in heroin users relates to their levels of anxiety [PDF]
, 2015 Heroin use is closely associated with emotional dysregulation, which may explain its high comorbidity with disorders such as anxiety and depression. However, the understanding of the neurobiological etiology of the association between heroin use and ...
Chan, CCH +6 more
core +1 more source
‘Cubs of Wall Street’: Cocaine Use in Top‐Boy Culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although cocaine use is rising among youth in many countries, little is known about the social context and its influence on this new pattern of use. Drawing on a theoretical framework of class, gender, and peer‐status dynamics and extensive data from personal interviews, we investigate how cocaine use is culturally situated and socially ...
Rikke Tokle, Willy Pedersen
wiley +1 more source
The Leeds Evaluation of Efficacy of Detoxification Study (LEEDS) project: An open-label pragmatic randomised control trial comparing the efficacy of differing therapeutic agents for primary care detoxification from either street heroin or methadone [ISRCTN07752728] [PDF]
, 2004 BACKGROUND: Heroin is a synthetic opioid with an extensive illicit market leading to large numbers of people becoming addicted. Heroin users often present to community treatment services requesting detoxification and in the UK various agents are used ...
A Ritter +22 more
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A heroin overdose laboratory model: How do escalating doses of diamorphine alter respiratory function in a diamorphine-treated population? [PDF]
AddictionAbstract Background & Aim Globally, more than 100 000 people die annually from opioid overdose. Although strongly implicated in heroin overdose deaths, acute opioid‐induced respiratory depression is poorly understood, and few laboratory studies have been completed in human subjects. It is an area of undone science.
Tas B +10 more
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