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The Effect Of Heroin Dependence On Resumption Of Heroin Self-Administration In Rats
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2014It has been proposed that relapse vulnerability in previously dependent individuals results from augmentation of drug-induced reinforcement due to repeated associations between the interoceptive properties of the drug and reduction of acute withdrawal distress.To test this hypothesis, male Sprague-Dawley rats self-administered 0.05 mg/kg/inf heroin on ...
Meenu, Minhas, Francesco, Leri
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The medical management of adolescent heroin dependence
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2000The use of heroin by American adolescents is at its highest levels since the heroin epidemic of the 1960s. This clinical perspective reviews medical issues associated with adolescent heroin dependence. Older, as well as potential newer, treatments for adolescent heroin dependence are discussed.
A B, Rowan, P J, Fudala, J, Mulligan
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Methadone and Naltrexone in the Treatment of Heroin Dependence
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1984Over the past 20 years, methadone maintenance has been shown to be a safe, effective treatment for large numbers of heroin addicts. The majority of patients derive major benefits while in treatment, most measurably in the areas of decreased use of illicit opiates, diminished criminality, increased levels of employment and more stable interpersonal ...
R A, Greenstein +2 more
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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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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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Outpatient Methadone Withdrawal for Heroin Dependence
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1980The outcome of outpatient methadone withdrawal reported in 20 published studies during the 1970s varied widely: none to 62% of the patients completed withdrawal, none to 35% became abstinent at termination of withdrawal, and none to 38% were abstinent at follow-up.
J F, Maddux, D P, Desmond, M, Esquivel
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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 reward is dependent on a dopaminergic substrate
Life Sciences, 1981Abstract The rewarding property of heroin was blocked by pretreatment with either naloxone or pimozide, suggesting that this opiate-receptor mediated effect is dependent on a dopaminergic substrate. The involvement of a dopaminergic mechanism in this effect supports the notion that opiates and other sources of reward activate a similar neural ...
M A, Bozarth, R A, Wise
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Sports Activities in the Prevention of Heroin Dependency
European Addiction Research, 2001The aim of this study was to find out more about the role played by sports activities in the prevention of illicit drug abuse. We administered a simple questionnaire to a group of 215 patients with heroin dependency. Their average age was 23 years (SD = 4.3, range 15–42); 163 (76%) of them were males and 52 (24%) females.
L, Okruhlica, J, Kaco, D, Klempova
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