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“Buprenorphine doesn't hold me”: Neurochemical afterlives of state violence and the struggle for meaning in addiction treatment

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
wiley   +1 more source

Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy (AV‐EXT)

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward, Hannah Ball, Alice Montague, Nikos Xanidis, Chanelle Myrie, Isobel Murcutt, Edward Oshodi, Clementine Edwards, Amy Hardy, Moya Clancy, Jeffrey McDonnell, Mar Rus‐Calafell, Hamish McLeod, Philippa Garety, Thomas Craig   +14 more
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Elevated Levels of Blood Neurofilament Light Chain in Substance‐Using Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, EarlyView.
Substance‐use disorders are increasingly linked to structural and functional brain alterations consistent with neuroaxonal injury. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a sensitive blood‐based marker of axonal damage, but evidence in substance‐using populations remains fragmented.
João Antônio Valadão Leal, Thiago Wendt Viola, Rodrigo Grassi‐Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homelessness and Support for Expanded Services: Los Angeles Residents' Perceptions of Public Safety in Their Neighbourhoods

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness in U.S. cities is a pressing civic issue, shaping residents' sense of safety and local policy debates. This study examines Los Angeles residents' perceptions of safety, their proximity to encampments, and attitudes towards mental health and substance use services. Using representative survey data from 4408 residents, we assess (1)
Sawyer Hogenkamp, Michael A. Stoll, Eric Lee, Chinyere J. Nwonye   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How more people died on methadone than heroin in Ireland.

, 2014
More methadone users than heroin users died in one year in Ireland, according to new figures. The Health Research Board found that 113 methadone users died of an overdose in 2011, almost double the number of heroin users.

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Advances in the Design and Functionality of a Compact Multi‐Reflecting Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometer

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 40, Issue 22, 30 November 2026.
ABSTRACT Rationale High‐resolution mass spectrometry is routinely used for the analysis of complex samples in pharmaceutical, environmental, and omics related studies. Such applications demand instrumentation to be capable of combining sub‐ppm mass accuracy, high resolving power, rapid full m/z range acquisition over a wide dynamic range.
Jason Wildgoose, Samantha Ferries, Lee A. Gethings, Matthew E. Daly, Martin E. Palmer, Richard Lock, Johannes P. C. Vissers, James I. Langridge   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Problematic use of prescription-type opioids prior to heroin use among young heroin injectors

, 2011
Robin A Pollini1, Caleb J Banta-Green2, Jazmine Cuevas-Mota3, Mitcheal Metzner3, Eyasu Teshale4, Richard S Garfein31Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD; 2Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA ...
Teshale E, Metzner M, Cuevas-Mota J, Garfein RS, Pollini RA, Banta-Green CJ   +4 more
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Heroin history [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
openaire   +2 more sources

Unpacking Ventral Pallidum GABA Neuron Contributions to Opioid Drug Reward in Rats. [PDF]

J Neurosci
Butcher GM, Ramirez EM, Ruiz CM, Castillo E, Farrell MR, Martinez MX, Mahler SV.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Heroin returning to Tralee streets.

, 2013
Tralee gardaí have warned that heroin is making a return to the town's streets, but the drug's use is confined to a small and specific ...

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