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Heroin dependence and HIV infection in Malaysia

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2006
Malaysia 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, Mahmud Mazlan, Richard S. Schottenfeld   +2 more
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The current status of heroin prescription treatment for heroin dependence

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2005
Heroin 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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The medical management of adolescent heroin dependence

Current Psychiatry Reports, 2000
The 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.
Paul J. Fudala, Amy B. Rowan, James Mulligan   +2 more
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Pharmacologic Treatments for Heroin and Cocaine Dependence

American Journal on Addictions, 2003
Given the difficulty of achieving sustained recovery, pharmacotherapy of opioid and cocaine addiction is more effective when combined with behavioral and psychosocial approaches. Effective pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence and withdrawal include methadone, L‐alpha acetylmethadol (LAAM), naltrexone, buprenorphine, and clonidine.
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Methadone and Naltrexone in the Treatment of Heroin Dependence

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1984
Over 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 ...
Elaine Resnick, Richard B. Resnick, Robert A. Greenstein   +2 more
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Heroin-Dependent Family: A Biopsychosocial Context

Substance Abuse, 2011
Substance use disorders are a debilitating, heterogenous group of disorders with multifactorial origins.
Tina Lal, Sonali Jhanjee, Kushal Jain, Arindam Mondal   +3 more
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Sports Activities in the Prevention of Heroin Dependency

European Addiction Research, 2001
The 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.
D. Klempova, L. Okruhlica, J. Kaco
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Treatment of Heroin Dependence

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2001
Ron Jackson, Joseph O. Merrill
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Alpha‐synuclein and heroin craving in opiate‐dependent patients on injectable heroin maintenance

Addiction Biology, 2011
ABSTRACTResearch suggests that alpha‐synuclein (SNCA) and NACP‐Rep1, a polymorphic complex microsatellite repeat ~10 kb upstream of the SNCA gene translational start, may be involved in substance‐use behaviors and craving. This study was the first to examine the effects of diacetylmorphine (DAM) on peripheral SNCA protein expression along with craving ...
Stefan Bleich, Stefan Bleich, Dominikus Bönsch, Isabelle Brugger, Otto Schmid, Johannes Kornhuber, Gerhard A. Wiesbeck, Kenneth M. Dürsteler-MacFarland   +7 more
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Buprenorphine as new treatment for heroin dependence

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1985
Dr. Jasinski suggested years ago that on the basis of some preliminary findings buprenorphine could hold promise for the treatment of heroin dependence (D. Jasinski, J.S. Pevnick and J.D. Griffith, Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, 35 (1978) 501)). No significant report has been published to confirm that assumption, and no treatment program seems to have started ...
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