Homeless drug users' awareness and risk perception of peer "Take Home Naloxone" use – a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND Peer use of take home naloxone has the potential to reduce drug related deaths. There appears to be a paucity of research amongst homeless drug users on the topic.
A Edwards +27 more
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Prisons and Drugs: A global review of incarceration, drug use and drug services. Report 12 [PDF]
, 2007 Prisons play an important role in drug policy. They are used to punish people who break drug laws and they also hold a large number of people who have experience of drug use and drug problems.
Brentari, C. +3 more
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Resting-state Abnormalities in Heroin-dependent Individuals [PDF]
Neuroscience, 2018 Drug addiction is a major health problem worldwide. Recent neuroimaging studies have shed light into the underlying mechanisms of drug addiction as well as its consequences to the human brain. The most vulnerable, to heroin addiction, brain regions have been reported to be specific prefrontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal regions, as well as, some
Leda Kovatsi +3 more
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Annals of General Psychiatry, 2010 Background Addiction is a relapsing chronic condition in which psychiatric phenomena play a crucial role. Psychopathological symptoms in patients with heroin addiction are generally considered to be part of the drug addict's personality, or else to be ...
Maremmani Icro +8 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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Profiles of visuospatial memory dysfunction in opioid exposed and dependent populations [PDF]
, 2019 Background . Chronic opioid exposure is common world-wide, but behavioural performance remains under-investigated. This study aimed to investigate visuospatial memory performance in opioid-exposed and dependent clinical populations and its associations ...
Baldacchino, Alex +3 more
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A Theory of Natural Addiction [PDF]
, 2007 Economic theories of rational addiction aim to describe consumer behavior in the presence of habit-forming goods. We provide a biological foundation for this body of work by formally specifying conditions under which it is optimal to form a habit.
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Medical students' attitudes towards the addictions [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The need for medical students to engage with patients with addictive problems is projected to increase in coming years. There will also be a concomitant greater emphasis on community-based learning.
Mullen, Kenneth, Smith, Iain
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Problematisation and regulation: bodies, risk, and recovery within the context of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [PDF]
, 2018 Background Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is an anticipated effect of maternal drug use during pregnancy. Yet it remains a contested area of policy and practice.
Chandler, Amy +5 more
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Clonidine improved laboratory-measured decision-making performance in abstinent heroin addicts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Impulsivity refers to a wide spectrum of actions characterized by quick and nonplanned reactions to external and internal stimuli, without taking into account the possible negative consequences for the individual or others, and decision ...
Xiao-Li Zhang +7 more
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