A Study to Validate a Self-Reported Version of the ONS Drug Dependence Questionnaire [PDF]
, 2011 Aim: A prospective study to establish the reliability of a self-completion version of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) questionnaire for assessing drug dependence of substance misuse clients.
Christo G. +17 more
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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 +5 more
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Pathological regional blood flow in opiate-dependent patients during withdrawal: A HMPAO-SPECT study [PDF]
, 1998 The aims of the present study were to investigate regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in heroin-dependent patients during withdrawal and to assess the relation between these changes and duration of heroin consumption and withdrawal data.
Biersack, H. J. +9 more
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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 +2 more
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Medical diagnoses associated with substance dependence among inpatients at a large urban hospital. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 There are limited data on reasons for hospital admission among patients dependent on substances other than alcohol. We compared primary discharge diagnoses for heroin- or cocaine-dependent patients to non-dependent patients.We evaluated a cohort of ...
Humberto Choi +3 more
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The newer opioid agonist treatment with lower substitutive opiate doses is associated with better toxicology outcome than the older harm reduction treatment [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Charge-free heroin use disorder treatment in Italy follows two main approaches, i.e., harm reduction treatment (HRT) strategy in community low-threshold facilities for drug addiction and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in high-threshold ...
Bacciardi, Silvia +8 more
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Narcotics Addiction and Its Treatment [PDF]
, 1957 The ongoing mythologizing of the poet in both criticism and, as recently in a play produced by Wasa teater (Vasa), is reductive, and needs to be confronted.
Winick, Charles
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Enlarged cerebrospinal fluid spaces in opiate-dependent male patients: A stereological CT study [PDF]
, 1998 Computed tomography was performed in 9 male patients with a diagnosis of opiate dependence and in 9 age-matched psychiatric controls (neurotic depression).
Broich, Karl +7 more
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Identifying and preventing health problems among young drug-misusing offenders [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the health problems and treatment needs of drug-misusing offenders and to draw out the implications of the findings for health education and prevention.
Judith Aldridge +2 more
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Toxicological Analysis of Some Drugs of Abuse in Biological Samples [PDF]
, 2015 Consumption of drugs of abuse is a scourge of modern world. Abuse, drug addiction and their consequences are one of the major current problems of European society because of the significant repercussions in individual, family, social and economic level ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza +5 more
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