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Barriers and facilitators to detoxification from opioid substitution treatment: A mixed‐methods systematic review

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Despite the well‐documented benefits of opioid substitution treatment (OST) in treating opioid dependence (OD), many people diagnosed with OD desire to live a drug‐free life. The transition to abstinence involves detoxification: a gradual dose reduction of OST to zero milligrams.
Amy Bagshaw, Suleyman Shah, India Olchefske, Louise M. Paterson, Mike J. Crawford, Anne Lingford‐Hughes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

When heroin hit the streets of Bootle [PDF]

A personal reflection of working as a probation officer in Bootle, Merseyside in 1983 when the area was one of the first in the UK to be hit with a new wave of drug misuse and every day young people could be seen buying and selling heroin on the streets ...
Buchanan, Julian
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Looking at a Blind Spot: Using a Longitudinal Population Cohort Study to Examine Inequalities in Child Social Worker Contact Among Mothers Experiencing Domestic Abuse in Scotland

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on inequalities in children's services in the UK highlights a lack of systematic data on parental demographics, obstructing analysis of structural factors influencing children's outcomes. Using Growing Up in Scotland, a nationally representative longitudinal child cohort study of children born in 2004–2005, we investigate social ...
Valeria Skafida, Eve Mullins, John Devaney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gray matter density negatively correlates with duration of heroin use in young lifetime heroin-dependent individuals

, 2009
Numerous studies have documented cognitive impairments and hypoactivity in the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in drug users. However, the relationships between opiate dependence and brain structure changes in heroin users are largely unknown.
Zhu, Zude, Lee, Tatia M. C., Tatia M.C. Lee, Yuan, Yi, Zou, Zhiling, Weng, Xuchu, Liu, Yijun, Yuan, Fei, Shi, Jinfu   +8 more
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UK Infected Blood Inquiry–An Historical Appraisal

Haemophilia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This appraisal considers the 2018 UK Infected Blood Inquiry and its Report (2024) in the context of the history of haemophilia treatment developments over the past fifty‐five years, and the tragic impacts of the AIDS pandemic. Aim The paper appraises the conduct and findings of the IBI and its Report in relation to HIV and AIDS ...
Christopher A. Ludlam
wiley   +1 more source

Study of the Transition from Non-Injection to Injection in Heroin Users

پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2010
Introduction & Objectives: The goal of our study was to elucidate the time and factors influencing the transition from non-injection to injection among male heroin users.
Mosaieb Yarmohammadi Vasel, Fatemeh Ghanadi   +1 more
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Oral Status in Relation to Demographic, Socioeconomic, Medical and Psychosocial Risk Factors Among Outpatients in Addiction Treatment Centers, Stockholm, Sweden

International Journal of Dental Hygiene, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate oral status in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, medical and psychosocial risk factors among outpatients receiving treatment for Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Methods This cross‐sectional study included 91 outpatients from Stockholm, Sweden. Oral status was assessed using the Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth (DMFT)
Sonja Rafat, Stefan Borg, Gunnar Edman, Anders Hammarberg, Patricia De Palma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Heroin Craving Intent of Heroin Abusers with Drug Abuse Degree? Personality Character and Mental Health

, 2009
[[abstract]]Background: Drug abuse usually makes addiction accompanied with compulsive craving behavior, and especially it is almost unable to quit heroin.
Tseng Sheng-Min
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Neuroinflammatory history results in overlapping transcriptional signatures with heroin exposure in the nucleus accumbens and alters responsiveness to heroin in male rats

Translational Psychiatry
Recent progress in psychiatric research has highlighted neuroinflammation in the pathophysiology of opioid use disorder (OUD), suggesting that heightened immune responses in the brain may exacerbate opioid-related mechanisms.
Gabriele Floris, Mary Tresa Zanda, Konrad R. Dabrowski, Stephanie E. Daws   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Oral Health Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Oral Health Risk‐Related Behaviours of People in Custodial Settings: An Integrative Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore the influence of oral health‐related knowledge, attitudes and practices on oral health risk‐related behaviours of people in custodial settings. Design Integrative review. Data Sources Scopus, ProQuest Central, Web of Science, Medline, CINAHL, Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO and Education Research Complete were searched in ...
Izabella Barak, Brandon W. Smith, Ajesh George, Rebecca Bosworth, Della Maneze, Kate Inderwisch, Yenna Salamonson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source