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Variants of opioid system genes are associated with non-dependent opioid use and heroin dependence. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Depend, 2016
Randesi M, van den Brink W, Levran O, Blanken P, Butelman ER, Yuferov V, da Rosa JC, Ott J, van Ree JM, Kreek MJ.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Opium dependence and the potential impact of changes in treatment coverage level: A dynamic modeling study [PDF]

Health Promotion Perspectives, 2021
Background: The most common drug, illegally used in Iran is opium. The treatment of people with substance use disorder is one of the most important strategies in reducing its burden.
Hosein Rafiemanesh, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Alireza Noroozi, Jaleh Gholami, Bita Vahdani, Amin Afshar, Mohammad Salehi, Koorosh Etemad   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Drug Abstinence Program on Memory Functioning of Heroin Addicts [PDF]

International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, 2015
Introduction: Most of our knowledge regarding the link between opioid dependence and poor cognitive functioning is derived from cross sectional studies.This longitudinal study measured the change in memory functioning following complete abstinence among ...
Sepideh Aryanfard, Fereshteh Rahimzadeh, Maryam Moghani-Lankarani, Rozainee Khairudin, Yahaya Mahamood, Shervin Assari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heroin maintenance for chronic heroin-dependent individuals [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2010
Several types of medications have been used for stabilizing heroin users: Methadone, Buprenorphine and levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol (LAAM.) The present review focuses on the prescription of heroin to heroin-dependent individuals.To compare heroin maintenance to methadone or other substitution treatments for opioid dependence regarding: efficacy and ...
Marica, Ferri, Marina, Davoli, Carlo A, Perucci   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

An instrument for visual cue associated craving of HEroin (IV-CACHE): A preliminary functional neuroimaging-based study of validity and reliability

Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Craving is the subjective experience of desire for specific drugs. Lack of reliability and untested construct validity are limiting factors for the existing questionnaires to assess craving.
Shantanu Shukla, Abhishek Ghosh, Chirag Kamal Ahuja, Debasish Basu, Bharath Holla   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pathways to age of onset of heroin use: a structural model approach exploring the relationship of the COMT gene, impulsivity and childhood trauma. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The interaction of the association of dopamine genes, impulsivity and childhood trauma with substance abuse remains unclear.To clarify the impacts and the interactions of the Catechol -O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, impulsivity and childhood trauma on ...
Ting Li, Jiang Du, Shunying Yu, Haifeng Jiang, Yingmei Fu, Dongxiang Wang, Haiming Sun, Hanhui Chen, Min Zhao   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Significant association of DRD2 and ANKK1 genes with rural heroin dependence and relapse in men.

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2020
INTRODUCTION Substance abuse significantly influences human health and may induce problems with social functioning worldwide. Numerous genetic and environmental risk factors, as well as their interactions, accelerate the development of drug addiction ...
Milena Lachowicz, J. Chmielowiec, K. Chmielowiec, A. Suchanecka, J. Masiak, Monika Michałowska-Sawczyn, B. Mroczek, A. Mierzecki, I. Ciechanowicz, A. Grzywacz   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Elderly male with late-onset heroin dependence

Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2021
Substance use disorders usually have their onset during the adolescent period. However, in rare cases environmental and psychosocial factors can contribute toward a later onset.
Akansha Bhardwaj, Sidharth Arya, Sunila Rathee, Rajiv Gupta   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling Long-Term Joint Trajectories of Heroin Use and Treatment Utilisation: Findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

EClinicalMedicine, 2019
Background: Heroin is currently contributing to the worst drug addiction epidemic in United States history; recent rates of use, dependence and death have also increased dramatically in parts of Europe.
Christina Marel, Katherine L. Mills, Tim Slade, Shane Darke, Joanne Ross, Maree Teesson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Repeated Episodes of Heroin Cause Enduring Alterations of Circadian Activity in Protracted Abstinence

Brain Sciences, 2012
Opiate withdrawal is followed by a protracted abstinence syndrome consisting of craving and physiological changes. However, few studies have been dedicated to both the characterization and understanding of these long-term alterations in post-dependent ...
Luis Stinus, Martine Cador, Stephanie Caille   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source