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European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022 Background The psychological treatment of comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD) is clinically challenging, and outcomes are often poor.
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Simulating Met-Enkephalin With Population Annealing Molecular Dynamics [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Met-enkephalin, one of the smallest opiate peptides and an important neurotransmitter, is a widely used benchmarking problem in the field of molecular simulation. Through its range of possible low-temperature conformations separated by free-energy barriers it was previously found to be hard to thermalize using straight canonical molecular dynamics ...
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Reciprocal Substitution Between Methamphetamine and Heroin in Terms of Reinforcement Effects in Rats
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Heroin and methamphetamine are both popular illicit drugs in China. Previous clinical data showed that habitual users of either heroin or methamphetamine abuse the other drug for substitution in case of unavailability of their preferred drug. The present
Di-sen Mei +9 more
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Opioid Atlas: Mapping Access to Pain Medication [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Opiates are some of the most effective pain relief medications available for patients suffering from cancer and surgery-related pain. Despite the affordability and effectiveness of these medications, access to opiates is highly geographically variable. Pain researchers have attributed geographic variation to various factors including the fear of opioid
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Consciousness and Endogenous State Reduction: Two Experiments [PDF]
arXiv, 2001 It is normally claimed that physical systems create and influence consciousness, but that consciousness cannot influence physical systems. However, I believe that this idea is flawed, and I suggest the following experiments as a way of demonstrating the influence of consciousness on physical systems.
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PharmacyThe United States (US) opioid epidemic is a persistent and pervasive public health emergency that claims the lives of over 80,000 Americans per year as of 2021.
Joshua D. Madera +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Opiate use is related to neuropathological disorders, stroke and stroke attributable risk factors. However, secondary exposure to opiate in relation to the above-mentioned complications is studied only in animal models and remains to be evaluated in ...
Nazanin Jalali +5 more
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COVID-19 and Mental Health/Substance Use Disorders on Reddit: A Longitudinal Study [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has adversely and disproportionately impacted people suffering from mental health issues and substance use problems. This has been exacerbated by social isolation during the pandemic and the social stigma associated with mental health and substance use disorders, making people reluctant to share their struggles and seek help.
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Challenges and Resources Available for Mothers in Opiate Recovery: A Qualitative Study
Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2018 Background: Opiate abuse and addiction in women during childbearing years has led to a sharp increase in neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Babies born with NAS are at risk for significant health and developmental deficits.
Michelle Suarez +2 more
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Detection of Opioid Users from Reddit Posts via an Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network [PDF]
The opioid epidemic, referring to the growing hospitalizations and deaths because of overdose of opioid usage and addiction, has become a severe health problem in the United States. Many strategies have been developed by the federal and local governments and health communities to combat this crisis.
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