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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, William Daniels, Ugasvaree Subramaney   +2 more
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Negative Mood Induction Increases Choice of Heroin Versus Food Pictures in Opiate-Dependent Individuals: Correlation With Self-Medication Coping Motives and Subjective Reactivity

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, Lorna Hardy, Alexandra Bakou, Justin Mahlberg, Gabrielle Weidemann, Gabrielle Weidemann, Sharon Cashel, Ahmed A. Moustafa, Ahmed A. Moustafa   +8 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, Di-sen Mei, Yu-jia Cai, Fang-min Wang, Bao-miao Ma, Hui-fen Liu, Hui-fen Liu, Wen-hua Zhou, Wen-hua Zhou, Jiang-ping Xu   +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, Ginevra D’Ottavio, Silvana De Pirro, Massimo Barra, Daniele Caprioli, Aldo Badiani   +5 more
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Family Related Factors and Concurrent Heroin Use in Methadone Maintenance Treatment in China. [PDF]

, 2018
BackgroundThe use of heroin during Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) is a challenging problem that contributes to poor treatment outcomes. Families may play an important role in addressing concurrent heroin use during MMT, especially in collectivist ...
Feng, Nan, Hsieh, Julie, Li, Li, Lin, Chunqing, Rou, Keming   +4 more
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Modelling Long-Term Joint Trajectories of Heroin Use and Treatment Utilisation: Findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

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, Katherine L. Mills, Tim Slade, Shane Darke, Joanne Ross, Maree Teesson   +5 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, AZ, Muhammad Muhsin, H , Hussain, Robson , Noorzurani   +3 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, Jiang Du, Shunying Yu, Haifeng Jiang, Yingmei Fu, Dongxiang Wang, Haiming Sun, Hanhui Chen, Min Zhao   +8 more
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Extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the basolateral amygdala is required for reconsolidation of heroin-associated memory

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2022
Reconsolidation of heroin-associated memory is an independent memory process that occurs following retrieval, which is essential for the sustained capacity of an associative drug stimulus to precipitate heroin-seeking.
Haoyu Li, Haoyu Li, Haoyu Li, Ting Hu, Ting Hu, Ting Hu, Yanghui Zhang, Zijin Zhao, Zijin Zhao, Zijin Zhao, Qing Liu, Qing Liu, Qing Liu, Zihua Chen, Zihua Chen, Si Chen, Si Chen, Si Chen   +17 more
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Quality of life and its correlates among heroin users in Taiwan

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2011
The aims of this study were to compare the quality of life (QOL) between subjects with and without heroin use and to examine the association of QOL with sociodemographic characteristics, characteristics of heroin use, family support, and depression among
Chia-Nan Yen, Carol Sheei-Meei Wang, Tzu-Yun Wang, Hsiao-Fang Chen, Hsun-Cheng Chang, 顏嘉男, 王秀美, 王姿云, 陳小芳, 張訓誠   +9 more
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