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Orthoptic status before and immediately after heroin detoxification [PDF]

, 2004
Aim: To determine whether changes in orthoptic status take place during withdrawal from heroin and/or methadone. Method: A prospective study of patients, using a repeated measures design, attending a 5 day naltrexone compressed opiate detoxification ...
Beaini, A.Y., Carr, M.P., Firth, A.Y., Pulling, S.   +3 more
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The "lessons" of the Australian "heroin shortage"

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2006
Heroin use causes considerable harm to individual users including dependence, fatal and nonfatal overdose, mental health problems, and blood borne virus transmission.
Gilmour Stuart, Day Carolyn, Degenhardt Louisa, Hall Wayne   +3 more
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Hepatitis B and C prevalence among heroin addicts in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and not in MMT in Pereira, Colombia

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014
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Juan Carlos Sepúlveda-Arias, Carlos Isaza, Juan Pablo Vélez   +2 more
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How the Misunderstanding that Heroin Addiction Is a Choice and the Stigma Surrounding Medication-Assisted Treatment Leads to More Overdose Deaths

, 2018
Heroin is an opioid that commonly appears as white or brown powder. Eventually a person can become physically dependent on heroin, meaning the body begins to expect the drug.
Drew, Margaret M.
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The novel mu-opioid antagonist, GSK1521498, reduces ethanol consumption in C57BL/6J mice. [PDF]

, 2015
RATIONALE Using the drinking-in-the-dark (DID) model, we compared the effects of a novel mu-opioid receptor antagonist, GSK1521498, with naltrexone, a licensed treatment of alcohol dependence, on ethanol consumption in mice.
C Giuliano, C Giuliano, David N. Stephens, David R. Wille, DM Ignar, DN Stephens, DW Oslin, EA Rabiner, Edward T. Bullmore, EE Codd, F Kiefer, GH Jones, H Wit de, H Ziauddeen, HM Pettinati, JR Volpicelli, JS Rhodes, Kay Maltby, LA Berner, LA Parker, LD Middaugh, LS Hwa, Manolo Mugnaini, NK Kamdar, P Monti, PJ Nathan, PJ Nathan, Pradeep Nathan, S Loeber, Sam R. Miller, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Tamzin L. Ripley, TJ Phillips, TL Ripley   +33 more
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Injecting equipment schemes for injecting drug users : qualitative evidence review [PDF]

, 2009
This review of the qualitative literature about needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) for injecting drug users (IDUs) complements the review of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
Akhionbare, Kate, Bagnall, Anne-Marie, Burrell, Kim, Cattan, Mima   +3 more
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Commune Health Workers' Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Knowledge and Perceived Difficulties Providing Decentralized MMT Services in Vietnam. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundWith the initial establishment of countrywide methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) system, Vietnam is in the process of expanding and decentralizing the MMT program to community-based healthcare settings.ObjectiveThe study aimed to measure the ...
Li, Li, Lin, Chunqing, Tuan, Nguyen Anh
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Retrospective analysis of heroin detoxification with buprenorphine in a psychiatric hospital in Japan

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2020
Aim We assessed the efficacy of buprenorphine replacement taper therapy in a psychiatric hospital in Japan. Methods Based on the medical records, a retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the outcomes of buprenorphine replacement taper therapy ...
Tatsushi Nagano, Sohei Kimoto, Katsuro Aso, Takashi Komori, Yasunari Yamaguchi, Kazuya Okamura, Noriya Yamamoto, Toshifumi Kishimoto   +7 more
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Comparison of demographic characteristics and psychiatric comorbidity among methamphetamine-, heroin- and methamphetamine-heroin co- dependent males in Hunan, China

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background There is little research of psychiatric comorbidity differences among people with different types of drug dependence in Chinese population.
Huixi Dong, Mei Yang, Liang Liu, Chenxi Zhang, Mengqi Liu, Yidong Shen, Huanzhong Liu, Wei Hao   +7 more
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Stress reactivity in heroin dependence

, 2015
Background: Heroin dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by a compulsion to seek and use heroin despite the negative consequences. In addition to the diagnostic criteria, heroin dependence is associated with an altered function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and with affective disturbances and other mental disorders.
openaire   +3 more sources