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Addiction, 2004 ABSTRACTAims To describe the eye misalignments that occur during heroin use and heroin detoxification and to give an overview of the management of persisting diplopia (double vision) which results from eye misalignment.Methods A literature review using Medline and the search terms strabismus, heroin and substance withdrawal syndrome is presented ...
Firth, A.Y.
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BMJ, 1989 Sur 13 echantillons d'heroine saisis provenant de pays tropicaux, 4 contiennent de l'aflatoxine B 1 . Des aflatoxines sont decelees dans l'urine de 27 toxicomanes sur 133. L'attention est attiree sur ce nouveau risque d'infection (hepatite, sida) chez les toxicomanes utilisant des injections intra-veineuses, l'aflatoxines ayant des proprietes ...
R. Young +2 more
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Upregulation of SOCS-3 and PIAS-3 impairs IL-12-mediated interferon-gamma response in CD56 T cells in HCV-infected heroin users. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 CD56(+) T cells are abundant in liver and play an important role in host innate immunity against viral infections, including hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a common infection among heroin abusers. We thus investigated the in vivo impact of heroin use
Li Ye +5 more
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Cognitive Enhancer Donepezil Attenuates Heroin-Seeking Behavior Induced by Cues in Rats
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2023 Purpose: Opioid use disorder is a significant global problem. Chronic heroin use is associated with impairment of cognitive function and conscious control ability.
Disen Mei +7 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2003 We report on a series of patients with acute strabismus related to heroin and methadone intake or withdrawal, discuss possible mechanisms involved in this clinical picture and make recommendations for work-up and referral.Retrospective study.Five patients presented with acute esotropia within days of heroin withdrawal, and two patients developed ...
Klara Landau, Florian K. P. Sutter
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Toots, tastes and tester shots: user accounts of drug sampling methods for gauging heroin potency
Harm Reduction Journal, 2018 Background Internationally, overdose is the primary cause of death among people injecting drugs. However, since 2001, heroin-related overdose deaths in the United States (US) have risen sixfold, paralleled by a rise in the death rate attributed to ...
Sarah G. Mars +2 more
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Postmortem tissue distribution of morphine and its metabolites in a series of heroin related deaths [PDF]
, 2018 The abuse of heroin (diamorphine) and heroin deaths are growing around the world. The interpretation of the toxicological results from suspected heroin deaths is notoriously difficult especially in cases where there may be limited samples.
Beer, Lewis J. +6 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022 The persistence of drug memory contributes to relapse to drug seeking. The association between repeated drug exposure and drug-related cues leads to cravings triggered by drug-paired cues.
Shuyi Qian +4 more
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Heroin addiction: the past and future [PDF]
, 2008 Substance misuse, in particular heroin addiction contributes to health and social problems. Although effective medical treatment was available, earlier efforts confined the treatment of heroin addicts to in-house rehabilitation which required them to be ...
AR, Rusdi +3 more
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The societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.An analytic model was created that included incarceration
Ruixuan Jiang +3 more
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