The role of concomitant drugs in the aetiology of fatal heroin- and methadone- related overdose [PDF]
, 2008 Heroin and methadone poisoning are significant causes of death of young people in the United Kingdom. In a high proportion of these fatalities concomitant substances are also detected.
Oliver, Phillip
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Clinical and psychosocial predictors of attendance and drug use in heroin users undergoing treatment [PDF]
, 2008 The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate the Theory of Planned Behaviour's ability to identify predictors of intention and behaviour. The population of interest are heroin users; the behaviours are attendance at treatment services and heroin use during
Horspool, Michelle J.
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Stress reactivity in heroin dependence [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Heroin dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by a compulsion to seek and use heroin despite the negative consequences. In addition to the diagnostic criteria, heroin dependence is associated with an altered function of the ...
Gerber, Hana
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Reduction in cerebral perfusion after heroin administration: a resting state arterial spin labeling study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Heroin dependence is a chronic relapsing brain disorder, characterized by the compulsion to seek and use heroin. Heroin itself has a strong potential to produce subjective experiences characterized by intense euphoria, relaxation and release from craving.
Niklaus Denier +8 more
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No evidence of accelerated epigenetic aging among black heroin users: A case vs control analysis
Addiction Neuroscience, 2023 This study sought to assess the association between illicit opioid use and accelerated epigenetic aging (A.K.A. DNAm Age) among people of African ancestry who use heroin.
Jermaine D. Jones +4 more
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Should heroin be prescribed to heroin misusers? No [PDF]
BMJ, 2008 Prescribing heroin to heroin addicts is a strategy beloved by top police officers1 and successive home secretaries.2 It is a strategy, though, borne of utter frustration at our seeming inability to tackle an escalating drug problem. If you cannot stop addicts committing crimes to fund their drug habit then, so the argument goes, the next best thing is ...
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EClinicalMedicine, 2019 Background: Heroin is currently contributing to the worst drug addiction epidemic in United States history; recent rates of use, dependence and death have also increased dramatically in parts of Europe.
Christina Marel +5 more
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Heroin and its metabolites: relevance to heroin use disorder
Translational Psychiatry, 2023 Heroin is an opioid agonist commonly abused for its rewarding effects. Since its synthesis at the end of the nineteenth century, its popularity as a recreational drug has ebbed and flowed.
Michele Stanislaw Milella +5 more
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Smoking heroin with cannabis versus injecting heroin: unexpected impact on treatment outcomes
Harm Reduction Journal, 2019 Background In several countries, especially in Africa, the dominant method of heroin intake is smoking a joint of cannabis laced with heroin. There is no data exploring the impact of smoking heroin with cannabis on treatment outcomes.
Nirvana Morgan +2 more
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Initiation to heroin injecting among heroin users in Sydney, Australia: cross sectional survey
Harm Reduction Journal, 2005 Background Heroin injection is associated with health and social problems including hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission. Few studies have examined the circumstances surrounding initiation to heroin injecting, especially current users initiating others ...
Day Carolyn A +3 more
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