Patterns of opioid use and treatment in a cohort of patients from the Anuradhapura district
Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 BackgroundOpioid dependence is a major mental health problem in Sri Lanka. Anuradhapura is a district with a significant prevalence of opioid (especially heroin) dependence.
A. Ellepola
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Detection of Opioid Users from Reddit Posts via an Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network [PDF]
The opioid epidemic, referring to the growing hospitalizations and deaths because of overdose of opioid usage and addiction, has become a severe health problem in the United States. Many strategies have been developed by the federal and local governments and health communities to combat this crisis.
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Selective cognitive processing of drug cues in heroin dependence [PDF]
, 2000 Ingmar H. A. Franken +3 more
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Patterns and Predictors of Heroin Use, Remission, and Psychiatric Health Among People with Heroin Dependence: Key Findings from the 18–20-Year Follow-Up of the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS) [PDF]
, 2023 Christina Marel +11 more
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Preventing opioid overdoses in Europe:a critical assessment of known risk factors and preventative measures [PDF]
, 2012 This report is the outcome of a project into opioid overdoses. The remit was to focus on finding practical methods of overdose prevention. In order to fulfil this remit, a critical review of existing knowledge on overdose prevention was conducted.
Baldacchino, Alex +3 more
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Elevated rate of suicide risk in individuals with opioid use disorder
The American Journal on Addictions, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Objectives Few studies have longitudinally investigated suicide risk (SR) in opioid use disorder (OUD). This investigation administered three screening tools to individuals with OUD to compare rates of and variables associated with SR over 12 months.
Max Spaderna +19 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
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Dynamical Analysis of a Cocaine-Heroin Epidemiological Model with Spatial Distributions [PDF]
arXivThis article conducts an in-depth investigation of a new spatio-temporal model for the cocaine-heroin epidemiological model with vital dynamics, incorporating the Laplacian operator. The study rigorously establishes the existence, uniqueness, non-negativity, and boundedness of solutions for the proposed model. In addition, the local stability of both a
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Adherence to Heroin Dependence Therapies and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Infection Rates among Drug Abusers [PDF]
, 2003 Silvana De Castro, E Sabaté
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Bipolar Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Caring for someone with Bipolar disorder (BD) is unique, and the severity and complexity of symptoms can overwhelm informal carers such as family, friends, and partners. Aim This study employed a concurrent mixed‐methods model to investigate the lived experience of informal carers caring for those with BD in Australia.
Juliet Robinson +3 more
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