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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Reciprocal Substitution Between Methamphetamine and Heroin in Terms of Reinforcement Effects in Rats
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Heroin and methamphetamine are both popular illicit drugs in China. Previous clinical data showed that habitual users of either heroin or methamphetamine abuse the other drug for substitution in case of unavailability of their preferred drug. The present
Di-sen Mei +9 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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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Acute growth in negative affect is thought to play a major role in triggering relapse in opiate-dependent individuals. Consistent with this view, three lab studies have demonstrated that negative mood induction increases opiate craving in opiate ...
Lee Hogarth +8 more
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Pathways to age of onset of heroin use: a structural model approach exploring the relationship of the COMT gene, impulsivity and childhood trauma. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The interaction of the association of dopamine genes, impulsivity and childhood trauma with substance abuse remains unclear.To clarify the impacts and the interactions of the Catechol -O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, impulsivity and childhood trauma on ...
Ting Li +8 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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