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Mobility-GCN: a human mobility-based graph convolutional network for tracking and analyzing the spatial dynamics of the synthetic opioid crisis in the USA, 2013-2020 [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Synthetic opioids are the most common drugs involved in drug-involved overdose mortalities in the U.S. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2018, about 70% of all drug overdose deaths involved opioids and 67% of all opioid-involved deaths were accounted for by synthetic opioids.
arxiv  

Measuring recovery among people who have completed residential rehabilitation: Factor structure and scoring of the substance use recovery evaluator

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction The substance use recovery evaluator (SURE) is a new patient‐reported outcome measure of recovery from alcohol and other drugs. The original SURE validation study did not include clients from residential rehabilitation treatment, and the possible challenges in applying the measure in this setting were noted.
Emma L. Hatton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper estimates the empirical relationship between the prices of cocaine and heroin and objective indicators of use. The set of outcomes is drug related hospital emergency department admissions where cocaine and heroin are cited, for 21 large U.S ...
Dhaval Dave
core  

Risk communication about high‐dose MDMA: Impact of a hypothetical drug alert on future MDMA use

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Despite high‐dose 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) drug alerts being distributed, no research has been conducted as to changes in use in response. This study aimed to determine if: (i) high‐dose MDMA drug alerts, and (ii) varied descriptions of dose, effects and actions to reduce harm were associated with intentions to ...
Joel Keygan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply-side reduction policy and drug-related harm [PDF]

open access: yes
Large-scale seizures of cocaine, heroin and amphetamine-type substances (ATS) do not result in any reduction in overdoses on these drugs or on arrests for use and possession of these drugs, according to this report.
Don Weatherburn   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Health‐care costs among people who use methamphetamine in Australia

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction This study aims to estimate the drug treatment costs and health services utilisation costs among people who used different treatment modalities to treat methamphetamine dependence. Methods This is a sub‐study of a prospective observational cohort study MATES (n = 501), including recruitment from 15 residential rehabilitation ...
Anh Dam Tran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesپزشکی 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   +1 more
doaj  

Heroin Addiction [PDF]

open access: green, 1964
P. A. L. Chapple
openalex   +1 more source

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