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Dihydrocodeine for detoxification and maintenance treatment in illicit opiate-dependent individuals [PDF]
, 2016 This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To investigate the effects of dihydrocodeine (DHC) in comparison to other pharmaceutical opioids and placebos in the detoxification of opiate-dependent individuals,
Carney, T +4 more
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BJGP OpenBackground: Women who use drugs face specific challenges compared with men such as higher rates of HIV infection, unsafe injecting practices, and intimate partner violence (IPV).
Daniela S Goeieman +3 more
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A clinical study of opioid substitution therapy in a tertiary care center of Eastern India
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2017 Background: Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is an evidence-based intervention for opiate-dependent persons that replaces illicit drug use with medically prescribed, orally administered opiates such as buprenorphine and methadone.
Satyakam Mohapatra +2 more
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On the Individual Surrogate Paradox [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 When the primary outcome is difficult to collect, surrogate endpoint is typically used as a substitute. It is possible that for every individual, treatment has a positive effect on surrogate, and surrogate has a positive effect on primary outcome, but for some individuals, treatment has a negative effect on primary outcome. For example, a treatment may
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Tapentadol as a drug of abuse – A preliminary report
Indian Journal of PsychiatryBackground: Tapentadol is a dual action opioid analgesic with emerging data on abuse and diversion. Aim: This study describes tapentadol abuse, clinical presentation, and treatment patterns.
Prakrithi Shivaprakash +7 more
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Prisons and Drugs: A global review of incarceration, drug use and drug services. Report 12 [PDF]
, 2007 Prisons play an important role in drug policy. They are used to punish people who break drug laws and they also hold a large number of people who have experience of drug use and drug problems.
Brentari, C. +3 more
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Multiple Treatments with Strategic Interaction [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We develop an empirical framework to identify and estimate the effects of treatments on outcomes of interest when the treatments are the result of strategic interaction (e.g., bargaining, oligopolistic entry, peer effects). We consider a model where agents play a discrete game with complete information whose equilibrium actions (i.e., binary treatments)
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P1‐106: Very high efficacy and safety of daas in pwid with chronic hepatitis c on opiate substitution treatment with buprenorphine: real life data from central Greece [PDF]
, 2018 openalex +1 more source
TrialsBackground Substance use disorder is associated with unhealthy lifestyle choices, resulting in adverse social and health consequences. People with opioid use disorder receiving opioid agonist therapy, in particular, have high morbidity and reduced ...
Einar Furulund +9 more
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Time Series Deconfounder: Estimating Treatment Effects over Time in the Presence of Hidden Confounders [PDF]
In Proc. 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML
2020), 2019 The estimation of treatment effects is a pervasive problem in medicine. Existing methods for estimating treatment effects from longitudinal observational data assume that there are no hidden confounders, an assumption that is not testable in practice and, if it does not hold, leads to biased estimates.
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