Mobility-GCN: a human mobility-based graph convolutional network for tracking and analyzing the spatial dynamics of the synthetic opioid crisis in the USA, 2013-2020 [PDF]
Synthetic opioids are the most common drugs involved in drug-involved overdose mortalities in the U.S. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2018, about 70% of all drug overdose deaths involved opioids and 67% of all opioid-involved deaths were accounted for by synthetic opioids.
arxiv
Genome-wide linkage analysis of heroin dependence in Han Chinese: Results from wave one of a multi-stage study [PDF]
Stephen J. Glatt+10 more
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Prisons and Drugs: A global review of incarceration, drug use and drug services. Report 12 [PDF]
Prisons play an important role in drug policy. They are used to punish people who break drug laws and they also hold a large number of people who have experience of drug use and drug problems.
Brentari, C.+3 more
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Abstract Background and Purpose Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a pressing public health concern marked by frequent relapse during periods of abstinence, perpetuated by negative affective states. Classical antidepressants or the currently prescribed opioid pharmacotherapies have limited efficacy to reverse the negative affect or prevent relapse ...
Andria Michael+7 more
wiley +1 more source
CLINICAL AND IMAGING STUDY: Glucocorticoid negative feedback in methadone‐maintained former heroin addicts with ongoing cocaine dependence: dose–response to dexamethasone suppression [PDF]
Bruno Aouizerate+7 more
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Background and Purpose Heroin and cocaine users tailor their dosage, frequency and administration route to maximise the drugs' effects or prevent withdrawal symptoms. Counterintuitively, preclinical self‐administration and choice experiments employ, almost invariably and regardless of the pharmacokinetic properties of the drug under examination, fixed ...
Ginevra D'Ottavio+18 more
wiley +1 more source
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+4 more
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Erratum: Unlimited Access to Heroin Self-Administration: Independent Motivational Markers of Opiate Dependence [PDF]
Scott A. Chen+5 more
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Abstract Introduction The substance use recovery evaluator (SURE) is a new patient‐reported outcome measure of recovery from alcohol and other drugs. The original SURE validation study did not include clients from residential rehabilitation treatment, and the possible challenges in applying the measure in this setting were noted.
Emma L. Hatton+4 more
wiley +1 more source
Study of the Transition from Non-Injection to Injection in Heroin Users
Introduction & Objectives: The goal of our study was to elucidate the time and factors influencing the transition from non-injection to injection among male heroin users.
Mosaieb Yarmohammadi Vasel+1 more
doaj