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Evaluating the Impact of Heroin Abuse on Cerebral Bioelectrical Activity in Adolescents: A Quantitative Electroencephalography Study

Neurological Sciences and Neurophysiology
Background: Heroin use during adolescence is associated with profound and potentially long-term effects on brain function. Quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) provides a valuable tool to investigate the neurophysiologic alterations caused by ...
Günay Gül, Cansu Helin Serindag, Fulya Eren, Sakir Gica, Arzu Çiftci, Aysun Soysal   +5 more
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“Buprenorphine doesn't hold me”: Neurochemical afterlives of state violence and the struggle for meaning in addiction treatment

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy (AV‐EXT)

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward, Hannah Ball, Alice Montague, Nikos Xanidis, Chanelle Myrie, Isobel Murcutt, Edward Oshodi, Clementine Edwards, Amy Hardy, Moya Clancy, Jeffrey McDonnell, Mar Rus‐Calafell, Hamish McLeod, Philippa Garety, Thomas Craig   +14 more
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Elevated Levels of Blood Neurofilament Light Chain in Substance‐Using Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, EarlyView.
Substance‐use disorders are increasingly linked to structural and functional brain alterations consistent with neuroaxonal injury. Neurofilament light chain (NfL) is a sensitive blood‐based marker of axonal damage, but evidence in substance‐using populations remains fragmented.
João Antônio Valadão Leal, Thiago Wendt Viola, Rodrigo Grassi‐Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits [PDF]

This paper estimates the empirical relationship between the prices of cocaine and heroin and objective indicators of use. The set of outcomes is drug related hospital emergency department admissions where cocaine and heroin are cited, for 21 large U.S ...
Dhaval Dave
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Homelessness and Support for Expanded Services: Los Angeles Residents' Perceptions of Public Safety in Their Neighbourhoods

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness in U.S. cities is a pressing civic issue, shaping residents' sense of safety and local policy debates. This study examines Los Angeles residents' perceptions of safety, their proximity to encampments, and attitudes towards mental health and substance use services. Using representative survey data from 4408 residents, we assess (1)
Sawyer Hogenkamp, Michael A. Stoll, Eric Lee, Chinyere J. Nwonye   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in the Design and Functionality of a Compact Multi‐Reflecting Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometer

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 40, Issue 22, 30 November 2026.
ABSTRACT Rationale High‐resolution mass spectrometry is routinely used for the analysis of complex samples in pharmaceutical, environmental, and omics related studies. Such applications demand instrumentation to be capable of combining sub‐ppm mass accuracy, high resolving power, rapid full m/z range acquisition over a wide dynamic range.
Jason Wildgoose, Samantha Ferries, Lee A. Gethings, Matthew E. Daly, Martin E. Palmer, Richard Lock, Johannes P. C. Vissers, James I. Langridge   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Distribution of opiates, cocaine and their metabolites in skeletal muscle tissue and vitreous humour as an aid to post-mortem toxicological interpretation. [PDF]

Post-mortem blood drug concentrations vary greatly and as a consequence of post-mortem change and redistribution may not reflect the concentration at the time of death.
Rees, Kelly-Ann
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Looking at a Blind Spot: Using a Longitudinal Population Cohort Study to Examine Inequalities in Child Social Worker Contact Among Mothers Experiencing Domestic Abuse in Scotland

Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 2187-2201, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Research on inequalities in children's services in the UK highlights a lack of systematic data on parental demographics, obstructing analysis of structural factors influencing children's outcomes. Using Growing Up in Scotland, a nationally representative longitudinal child cohort study of children born in 2004–2005, we investigate social ...
Valeria Skafida, Eve Mullins, John Devaney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sociodemographic and clinical profiles of individuals with opioid dependence syndrome presenting to a tertiary care center in Assam: A retrospective review

Indian Journal of Psychiatry
Background: Opioid dependence is a critical public health issue in Northeast India, with limited data available on the affected population. Aim: This study examines the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of opioid-dependent individuals in Assam ...
Pranjal J. Chakravarty, Tathagata Mahintamani, Diptadhi Mukherjee, Partha P. Daimary, Hemanta Dutta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source