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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
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, 2018 Heroin is an opioid that commonly appears as white or brown powder. Eventually a person can become physically dependent on heroin, meaning the body begins to expect the drug.
Drew, Margaret M.
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the ethical and creative value of composite fiction as a method for engaging with vulnerable participants in health geography research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Port Talbot, South Wales, it examines how composite fiction can allow for co‐creation, to challenge authorial authority, support the ethical ...
Rosie Knowles
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Injecting risk behaviours, self-reported mental health and crime [PDF]
This paper explores differences between two types of illicit drug users (heroin users and non-heroin users) in relation to injecting risk behaviours, self-reported mental health, driving and crime.Key findingsParticipants were divided into two groups ...
Jennifer Stafford, Lucy Burns
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The Effects of Oxytocin on Withdrawal, Craving and Stress Response in Heroin-Dependent Patients: A Randomized, Double-Blind Clinical Trial [PDF]
, 2019 Mina Moeini +3 more
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Neuropsychopharmacology of hallucinogenic and non‐hallucinogenic 5‐HT2A receptor agonists
British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocin were once relegated to the fringes of medical research because of their association with counterculture movements and a perceived concern about harm through recreational use, and their consequent legal prohibition in the early 1970s.
Trevor Sharp, Aurelija Ippolito
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2010 Background The field of heroin use disorder intervention has been in transition in South Africa since the outbreak of the heroin epidemic. Yet despite growing evidence of an association between heroin users' use of supplementary intervention services and
Fourie David +3 more
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Use of Psychoactive Substances Before Incarceration Among Prison Inmates With Drug Abuse or Dependence: Data From the OPPIDUM Program. [PDF]
Fundam Clin PharmacolABSTRACT Background The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of dependence and abuse of psychoactive substances (PAS) among prison inmates, using data from the OPPIDUM program between 2013 and 2022. Methods OPPIDUM is an annual, cross‐sectional national program, conducted among users consulting in specialised addiction centres.
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British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Theorized mechanism of dopamine homeostasis restoration in the nucleus accumbens core induced by a psychedelic intervention. Abstract Psychedelics have garnered great attention in recent years as treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment‐resistant depression because of their ability to alter consciousness and afflicted cognitive ...
Lucas Wittenkeller +3 more
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