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Sociodemographic and clinical profile of drug treatment seekers attending the State Psychiatric Hospital and Drug De-addiction Center at Agartala, Tripura

Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Substance use disorders have become a widespread public health problem, especially in the northeastern states, and limited studies have been undertaken to reflect the picture of the same.
Udayan Majumder, Joysree Das, Swapan Chandra Barman, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Bimal Krishna Bhowmic   +4 more
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Reemergence of Intravenous Drug Use as Risk Factor for Candidemia, Massachusetts, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
The epidemic of illicit intravenous drug use (IVDU) in the United States has been accompanied by a surge in drug overdose deaths and infectious sequelae.
Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, Anamika Dutta, Shannon Stock, Sunkaru Touray, Richard T. Ellison, Stuart M. Levitz   +5 more
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Psychiatric and Medical Co-morbidities among the substance abusers presenting at Patna Medical college- A clinical study

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background: The link between hazardous types of illegal drug use and significant public health issues is a critical issue for national and international drug policy. There are several negative health effects connected with drug use, with the avoidance of
Vivek Pratap Singh , Abhishek Pratap Singh , Narendra Pratap Singh   +2 more
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Patterns and sociodemographic characteristics of substance abuse among hepatitis C virus-infected patients in Iraq: a cross-sectional study

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
Background Substance use disorders are a widely recognized problem among hepatitis C-infected patients; moreover, substance abuse by intravenous injection is a common mode of transmission of the hepatitis C virus worldwide. The frequency of substance use
Noor Ali Hasan, Nesif Al-Hemiary
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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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BU10038 as a safe opioid analgesic with fewer side-effects after systemic and intrathecal administration in primates [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 British Journal of Anaesthesia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Background: The marked increase in mis-use of prescription opioids has greatly affected our society. One potential solution is to develop improved analgesics which have
Cami-Kobeci, Gerta, Czoty, Paul W., DeLoid, Heather B., Ding, Huiping, Hsu, Fang Chi, Husbands, Stephen M., Kiguchi, Norikazu, Ko, Mei Chuan, Sukhtankar, Devki D., Toll, Lawrence   +9 more
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Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa, Gracia Mendoza, Silvia Irusta, Manuel Arruebo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-injecting non-prescribed substances into vascular access devices: a case study of one health system’s ongoing journey from clinical concern to practice and policy response

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Overdose-associated deaths and morbidity related to substance use is a global public health emergency with devastating social and economic costs.
Jocelyn Chase, Melissa Nicholson, Elizabeth Dogherty, Emma Garrod, Jocelyn Hill, Rupinder Brar, Victoria Weaver, William J. Connors   +7 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.
Ainslie, Atkinson, Attila Tasnádi, Baldwin, Baron-Cohen, Becker, Becker, Bergstrom, Blass, Blass, Blass, Bodnar, Booth, Brick, Camerer, Camerer, Campbell, Carson-DeWitt, Chiara, Cohen, Colantuoni, Cooper, Cooper, Cummings, Deth, Drewnowski, Dudley, Dum, Fantino, Fehr, Foster, Gilbertson, Gillberg, Gosnell, Griffiths, Grossman, Gruber, Gul, Harrigan, Headlee, Hirshleifer, Hirshleifer, Holtzman, Jaffe, Kahneman, Kalat, Kavaliers, Kavaliers, Killian, Laibson, Laibson, Leboyer, Leboyer, Loewenstein, Martin, McKim, Mello, Mercer, Morley, Mucha, Mucha, Nelson, Nesse, Nesse, Orphanides, Orphanides, Ostrowski, Parfitt, Pert, Pomerleau, Raiten, Raven, Robson, Rogers, Rudski, Samuelson, Sanger, Savage, Schuckit, Si, Simon, Simpkins, Smith, Sozou, Spanagel, Sullivan, Sullivan, ter Riet, Terenius, Trenton G. Smith, van Ree, van Ree, van Ree, Waeltl, Weeks, Weeks, Weiss, Williams, Yamamoto, Yeomans, Yeomans, Yeomans, Zigmond   +102 more
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Tailoring Advanced Metal‐Based Nanomedicines for Adaptable Nanodynamic Disease Therapies and Theranostics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent advances in metal‐based nanomaterials (MBNs) as multifunctional platforms for next‐generation diagnostics and nanodynamic therapies (NDTs), highlighting their structural tunability, diverse therapeutic modalities, and broad biomedical applications in oncology and infectious disease control.
Qihang Ding, Wenhao Li, Ling Mei, Suling Luo, Jing Tao, Chongxiu Shi, Hongping Yang, Wei Feng, Yungchang Chen, Yu Chen, Jong Seung Kim, Xue Shen   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source