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Pharmacologic Treatment of Heroin-Dependent Patients
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000Patients with heroin dependence frequently present to internists and other physicians for heroin-related medical, psychiatric, and behavioral health problems and often seek help with reducing their heroin use. Thus, physicians should be familiar with the identification and diagnosis of heroin dependence in their patients and be able to initiate ...
P G, O'Connor, D A, Fiellin
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Heroin-Dependent Family: A Biopsychosocial Context
Substance Abuse, 2011Substance use disorders are a debilitating, heterogenous group of disorders with multifactorial origins.
Sonali, Jhanjee +3 more
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Heroin dependence: Consequences and precursors related to route of administration
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 1999Two random samples of Danish prisoners on remand (solitary confinement (SC) and non-SC)) were examined using semistructured and standardized psychiatric and social interviews, cognitive tests, and questionnaires. Heroin dependence was divided into injection heroin dependence (IHD) and smoke heroin dependence (SHD). Comparisons corrected for confounders
Andersen, Henrik Steen +4 more
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Prescription of Heroin for the Management of Heroin Dependence
CNS Drugs, 2009The prescription of heroin (diamorphine) for the management of heroin dependence is a controversial treatment approach that was limited to Britain until the 1990s. Since then a number of countries have embarked upon clinical trials of this approach, and it is currently licensed and available in several European countries.
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The current status of heroin prescription treatment for heroin dependence
Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2005Heroin prescription (HP) to treat severe heroin dependence has been available to few patients in the UK for several decades with limited, but generally favourable, evaluation. In the last decade, large trials have been reported from two countries, are presently underway in three other countries and under consideration in several other countries.
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WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, 2004
Heroin use, particularly injection use, is a problem of great public health importance. The risks associated with heroin dependence, such as HIV and viral hepatitis, and the social costs due to associated crime and poverty exceed those of most other drugs of abuse.
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Heroin use, particularly injection use, is a problem of great public health importance. The risks associated with heroin dependence, such as HIV and viral hepatitis, and the social costs due to associated crime and poverty exceed those of most other drugs of abuse.
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Vocational Interests of Heroin-Dependent Patients
Psychological Reports, 1979Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory profiles of 114 male drug abusing (18 to 44 yr.) participants in a voluntary VA Drug Abuse Program were obtained. Mean scores are reported for the occupational scales and area scales. The profiles are more indicative of avoidance rather than similarities of interests.
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Treatment of Heroin Dependence
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2001J O, Merrill, R, Jackson
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Heroin dependence and HIV infection in Malaysia
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2006Malaysia is experiencing severe problems with heroin dependence and HIV infection. This, study evaluated drug use and other HIV risk behaviors and their association with HIV and other infectious diseases in heroin-dependent subjects enrolled in a clinical trial of drug abuse treatment in Muar, Malaysia.Baseline assessment of treatment-seeking subjects (
Marek C, Chawarski +2 more
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Update on Heroin Dependence Research
Journal of Addictions Nursing, 2008Mills, K. L., Teeson, M., Ross, J., & Darke, S. (2007). The impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on treatment outcomes for heroin dependence.
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