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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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Medication experiences in the treatment of opioid use disorders: Insights from Reddit
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Aims Better understanding the challenges faced by patients on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), including methadone and buprenorphine, is critical to increasing their use/retention. Social media platforms such as Reddit offer a space for patients to share their experiences with medications.
Alexandra Almeida +5 more
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Can Sentiment Analysis Reveal Structure in a Plotless Novel? [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Modernist novels are thought to break with traditional plot structure. In this paper, we test this theory by applying Sentiment Analysis to one of the most famous modernist novels, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. We first assess Sentiment Analysis in light of the critique that it cannot adequately account for literary language: we use a unique ...
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Reduction in N2 amplitude in response to deviant drug-related stimuli during a two-choice oddball task in long-term heroin abstainers [PDF]
, 2017 Rationale: Chronic heroin use can cause deficits in response inhibition, leading to a loss of control over drug use, particularly in the context of drug-related cues.
Cai, Y +6 more
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Aims The use of new synthetic opioids, such as the highly potent 2‐benzylbenzimidazoles (i.e. nitazene) drugs, is a global health concern because of their increased risk of fatal overdose. In the early 2020s, nitazene analogues were linked to significant numbers of overdoses in the United States.
Richard Bade +5 more
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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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Trends and Associated Factors of Use of Opioid, Heroin, and Cannabis Among Patients for Emergency Department Visits in Nevada: 2009–2017 [PDF]
, 2019 To examine trends and contributing factors of opioid, heroin, and cannabis-associated emergency department (ED) visits in Nevada. The 2009 to 2017 Nevada State ED database (n = 7,950,554 ED visits) were used.
Chun, Sungyoun +6 more
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Naloxone dosing in the era of synthetic opioids: Applying the Goldilocks principle
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract The opioid overdose epidemic remains a critical public health crisis. In recent years, synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes, have driven a sharp rise in deaths. Naloxone, an opioid receptor antagonist, has been established as a key intervention for reversing opioid overdoses and saving lives.
Mariana Gonzalez Utrilla +8 more
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Survival time of Princess Kaguya in an air-tight bamboo chamber [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Princess Kaguya is a heroine of a famous folk tale, as every Japanese knows. She was assumed to be confined in a bamboo cavity with cylindrical shape, and then fortuitously discovered by an elderly man in the forest. Here, we pose a question as to how long she could have survived in an enclosed space such as the bamboo chamber, which had no external ...
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