Mental health problems: Are they or are they not a risk factor for dropout from drug treatment? A systematic review of the evidence [PDF]
Background: A sizeable number of recent studies investigating whether clients with substance misuse and mental health problems (dual diagnosis clients) are at heightened risk of dropout from drug treatment have been published.
Broome KM+10 more
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La méthadone et la buprénorphine sont les deux traitements de substitution des opiacés autorisés en France depuis la fin des années 1990. Plus récemment, certains pays africains, comme le Sénégal, ont mis en place une nouvelle politique de santé axée sur la réduction des risques, en encourageant le recours aux traitements de substitution des opiacés ...
Gaye, Sader+4 more
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3OD – Once-daily (OD) TDF-containing HAART in HIV-1-infected former IVDU-patients receiving opiate substitution : efficacy, tolerability and adherence [PDF]
Purpose of the study: There is a clinical need for antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens that simplify dosing and make adherence easier for specific patient groups such as former intravenous drug users (IVDU) receiving opiate substitution.
Esser, Stefan+10 more
core
Single high-dose buprenorphine for opioid craving during withdrawal. [PDF]
BackgroundOpioid use disorder is one of the most prevalent addiction problems worldwide. Buprenorphine is used as a medication to treat this disorder, but in countries where buprenorphine is unavailable in combination with naloxone, diversion can be a ...
Ahmadi, Jamshid+3 more
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Background: Criminal justice-involved populations are disproportionately more likely to have an active substance use disorder (SUD) and experience a fatal overdose.
Zoe Lindenfeld+2 more
doaj
Background Opioid dependence, characterised by socio economic disadvantage and significant morbidity and mortality, remains a major public health problem in Ireland. Through the methadone treatment protocol (MTP), Irish general practice has been a leader
Ide Delargy+2 more
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Consciousness and Endogenous State Reduction: Two Experiments [PDF]
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.
arxiv
HIV treatment access and scale-up for delivery of opiate substitution therapy with buprenorphine for IDUs in Ukraine—programme description and policy implications [PDF]
R. Douglas Bruce+3 more
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Injecting equipment schemes for injecting drug users : qualitative evidence review [PDF]
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+3 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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