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Opiate Antagonists for Chronic Pain: A Review on the Benefits of Low-Dose Naltrexone in Arthritis versus Non-Arthritic Diseases

open access: yesBiomedicines, 2023
Chronic pain conditions create major financial and emotional burdens that can be devastating for individuals and society. One primary source of pain is arthritis, a common inflammatory disease of the joints that causes persistent pain in affected people.
Praneet Dara   +5 more
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Repeated Episodes of Heroin Cause Enduring Alterations of Circadian Activity in Protracted Abstinence

open access: yesBrain 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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Spinal Cord Resting State Activity in Individuals With Fibromyalgia Who Take Opioids

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2021
Chronic pain coincides with myriad functional alterations throughout the brain and spinal cord. While spinal cord mechanisms of chronic pain have been extensively characterized in animal models and in vitro, to date, research in patients with chronic ...
Katherine T. Martucci   +2 more
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Opiate addiction in Republic of Srpska: Characteristics and etiology [PDF]

open access: yesSpecijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2013
Opiate addiction is a significant social and health problem with a negative impact on individuals' health and their social environment. The aim of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of opiate addicts in order to determine the social and ...
Niškanović Jelena
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Opiates as Antidepressants

open access: yesCurrent Pharmaceutical Design, 2009
The pathophysiology of mood disorders involves several genetic and social predisposing factors, as well as a dysregulated response to a chronic stressor, i.e. chronic pain. Our present view that depression involves a dysfunction of the monoaminergic system is a result of important clinical and preclinical observations over the past 40 years.
Berrocoso, E.   +3 more
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Naloxone‐associated pulmonary edema in a 3‐year‐old with opioid overdose

open access: yesJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022
Background Annually, close to 5000 children under age 6 years are treated in emergency departments or admitted for care due to opioid exposures. Naloxone is effectively used to treat opioid overdose in both children and adults.
Sarah Grout   +2 more
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Cognitive Enhancer Donepezil Attenuates Heroin-Seeking Behavior Induced by Cues in Rats

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2023
Purpose: Opioid use disorder is a significant global problem. Chronic heroin use is associated with impairment of cognitive function and conscious control ability.
Disen Mei   +7 more
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Effects of Perinatal Oxycodone Exposure on the Cardiovascular Response to Acute Stress in Male Rats at Weaning and in Young Adulthood

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2013
Oxycodone (OXY) is one of the most commonly abused opiates during pregnancy. Perinatal opiate exposure (POE) is associated with neurobehavioral and hormone changes.
Thitinart eSithisarn   +4 more
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Polysomnographic parameters as early as one week after detoxification could predict risk of relapse among detoxified opiates misuse patients over six months follow up period

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Protracted abstinence syndrome represent group of attenuated psyc that lead to a persistant sense of discomfort among misuse patients after detoxification and may last for some months.Poor sleep in terms of duration and quality is one of ...
A. Rady, J. Mekky, A. Elsheshai
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Addiction: Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Judaism

open access: yesReligions, 2014
This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction.
Kate Miriam Loewenthal
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