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Working memory and affective decision-making in addiction: A neurocognitive comparison between heroin addicts, pathological gamblers and healthy controls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Cognitive deficits are observed both in heroin dependence and in pathological gambling (PG) on various tasks. PG, as a non-substance addiction, is free of toxic consequences of drug use.
Yan, Wan-Sen   +5 more
core  

Drug sellers' use of a drug checking service amid the overdose crisis in British Columbia, Canada

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims This study examined the use of a drug checking service by drug sellers in British Columbia, Canada, to assess motivations for service use and substances intended for distribution, focusing on risks associated with an unstable illicit drug market.
Pablo Gonzalez‐Nieto   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Odds ratio in multiple SNP-containing haplotypes in association with heroin dependence. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Individual 2-, 3-, and 4-SNPs haplotypes, containing S1, S3, S5, and S29, significantly associated with heroin dependence (P < 0.05; PGlobal < 0.05) are organized by their odds ratio (OR) in a descending order.
Mei Yang (51996)   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Hepatitis B and C prevalence among heroin addicts in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and not in MMT in Pereira, Colombia

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014
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Juan Carlos Sepúlveda-Arias   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The feasibility of mindfulness‐based relapse prevention for adults with substance use disorders (illicit drugs) in a Chinese population: A pilot randomized controlled trial

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Mindfulness‐based relapse prevention (MBRP) has been shown to be beneficial to individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) in the West. The current pilot study aimed at testing the feasibility of MBRP in a Chinese population.
Ka Tsun Ting   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Stress on Decision-Making Deficits in Formerly Heroin-Dependent Patients After Different Durations of Abstinence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Objective: Drug abuse is associated with substantial impairments in decision making. However, little is known about the time course of changes in decision-making ability after abstinence or about the effects of stress on decision making in individuals ...
Zhao, Li-yan   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Charting the decline of the fourth wave: US overdose deaths by race, ethnicity and substance involvement

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims To characterize decreases in overdose death rates in the United States (US) between 2023 and 2024 by race/ethnicity, and substance involvement. Design Population‐based study of national death records accessed via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide‐ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) platform ...
Joseph R. Friedman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The association between naloxone distribution, buprenorphine treatment and retention and incident high‐risk opioid prescribing with opioid overdose death in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, United States: An exploratory community‐level cohort study of data from the HEALing Communities Study

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim We evaluated whether community‐level naloxone distribution, medication for opioid use disorder treatment and retention and incident high‐risk opioid prescribing rates were associated with opioid overdose death rates. Design Observational cohort conducted using 2019 to 2023 community‐level data as an exploratory analysis of the HEALing ...
Alexander Y. Walley   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of diacetylmorphine on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and heroin craving in heroin dependence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background/Aim: Heroin dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by the compulsion to seek and use heroin. Stress and craving are seen as key factors for heroin use.
Joechle, Wolfgang   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Characteristics of deaths due to drug‐related causes among individuals recently released from prison in the United Kingdom, 1997–2025

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims There has been an extensive literature describing the elevated risk of drug‐related death following an individual's release from prison; however, few previous studies have reported nationally representative samples or provided granular detail as to which individual drugs were deemed implicated in death.
Emmert Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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