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Motivated by identity: A social identity analysis of why people become foster carers

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 4, October 2026.
Abstract Understanding why individuals are motivated to take on new identities, particularly why people choose to become foster carers, is critical to addressing persistent shortages in foster care systems. Despite policy consensus that foster care is the preferred alternative when children cannot remain with birth families, shortages persist across ...
Kathy Phelan, Aisling T. O'Donnell, Sarah Jay, Lorraine O. B. Madden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations between prenatal alcohol exposure and parent‐reported sleep disturbances in 10,336 adolescents: an Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 67, Issue 10, Page 1680-1691, October 2026.
Background This study investigated the associations between prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), including low and moderate levels of exposure, and parent‐reported sleep disturbances during adolescence. This is an area that remains understudied despite evidence linking PAE, particularly heavy PAE, to poor sleep in younger children and the growing ...
Emma K. Devine, ReJoyce Green, Rachel Visontay, Hollie Byrne, Julia Riches, Elizabeth J. Elliott, Nicola C. Newton, Lindsay M. Squeglia, Louise Mewton, Lexine A. Stapinski   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Responding to the heroin epidemic

Responding to the heroin epidemicPREVENT People From Starting Heroin\ue2\u20ac\ua2 Reduce prescription opioid painkiller abuse.\ue2\u20ac\ua2 Improve opioid painkiller prescribing practices and identify high-risk individuals early.REDUCE Heroin Addiction\

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Drugs repurposed against morphine and heroin dependence: molecular docking, DFT, MM-GBSA-based MD simulation studies. [PDF]

In Silico Pharmacol
Malik JA, Wani MA, Dar MO, Garg P, Agrewala JN.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Today's heroin epidemic : more people at risk, multiple drugs abused

Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels. Some of the greatest increases occurred in demographic groups with historically low rates of heroin use: women, the privately insured, and people with ...

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Nerve growth factor gene polymorphisms may be associated with heroin dependence in women but do not mediate specific personality traits. [PDF]

Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
Kuo SC, Lin CL, Tsou CC, Yeh YW, Yang BZ, Chen CY, Huang CY, Huang SY.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GRK5 Is Associated with the Regulation of Methadone Dosage in Heroin Dependence. [PDF]

Int J Neuropsychopharmacol, 2018
Wang SC, Chung RH, Kuo HW, Liu TH, Fang CP, Liu SC, Liu CC, Tsou HH, Chen ACH, Liu YL.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When heroin hit the streets of Bootle [PDF]

A personal reflection of working as a probation officer in Bootle, Merseyside in 1983 when the area was one of the first in the UK to be hit with a new wave of drug misuse and every day young people could be seen buying and selling heroin on the streets ...
Buchanan, Julian
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor serum levels as a candidate biomarker for withdrawal in crack heroin dependence. [PDF]

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy
Charkhat Gorgich EA, Rigi MG, Fanaei H, Parsaei H, Ghanbarzehi A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source