French Experience with Buprenorphine : Do Physicians Follow the Guidelines? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Opiate dependence affects about 15,479,000 people worldwide. The effectiveness of opiate substitution treatments (OST) has been widely demonstrated. Buprenorphine plays a particular role in opiate dependence care provision in France.
Morgane Guillou Landreat +5 more
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Neurobehavioral consequences of chronic intrauterine opioid exposure in infants and preschool children: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2014 <b>Background</b><p></p> It is assumed within the accumulated literature that children born of pregnant opioid dependent mothers have impaired neurobehavioral function as a consequence of chronic intrauterine opioid use.<p>&
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Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, 2014 Introduction: Substitution treatment is recommended by the WHO as an effective form of curbing and abstaining from opiate use and improvement of psychosocial functioning of drug addicted persons.
Magdalena Nalaskowska +1 more
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Dynamic modelling of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs: a methodological review [PDF]
, 2014 Equipment sharing among people who inject drugs (PWID) is a key risk factor in infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV). Both the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HCV transmission in this population (such as opioid ...
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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: Pharmacologic strategies for the mother and infant. [PDF]
, 2016 Opioid use in pregnancy has increased dramatically over the past decade. Since prenatal opioid use is associated with numerous obstetrical and neonatal complications, this now has become a major public health problem.
Davis, Jonathan M. +2 more
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On drug treatment and social control: Russian narcology's great leap backwards
Harm Reduction Journal, 2008 The medical discipline of narcology in Russia is a subspecialty of psychiatry from the Soviet era and it is given warrant to define the scope of health activities with regard to alcohol and other drug use, drug users, and related problems.
Drucker Ernest, Elovich Richard
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Community Pharmacy-Based Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment: Findings From a Canadian Pilot Program. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol RevABSTRACT Introduction Access to evidence‐based treatment for opioid use disorder remains limited, particularly for individuals who have not responded to oral opioid agonist treatment (OAT). A community pharmacy‐based model of injectable OAT (iOAT) was piloted in Vancouver, Canada from March 2017 to December 2018. This brief report describes the program
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The experience of long-term opiate maintenance treatment and reported barriers to recovery: A qualitative systematic review [PDF]
, 2013 Background/Aim: To inform understanding of the experience of long-term opiate maintenance and identify barriers to recovery. Methods: A qualitative systematic review.
Annie Blyth +31 more
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Treating substance abuse is not enough: Comorbidities in consecutively admitted female prisoners [PDF]
, 2015 Publisher Copyright: © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.Introduction: Several studies have pointed to high rates of substance use disorders among female prisoners. The present study aimed to assess comorbidities of substance use disorders with other mental disorders in
Adrian P. Mundt +41 more
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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
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