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Opium trade and the spread of HIV in the Golden Crescent

Harm Reduction Journal, 2017
The Golden Crescent region of South Asia—comprising Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan—is a principal global site for opium production and distribution. Over the past few decades, war, terrorism, and a shifting political landscape have facilitated an active
Syeda Ayesha Farooq, Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly, Syed Hani Abidi, Kayvon Modjarrad, Syed Ali   +4 more
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Benzochalcogenodiazoles, Synthesis, and Applications in Medicinal Chemistry and Photomedicine

European Journal of Organic Chemistry, EarlyView.
Benzochalcogenodiazoles (BXD) including benzoxadiazoles, benzothiadiazoles, and benzoselenadiazoles are initially mainly designed for optoelectronic materials as electron‐deficient cores. Nevertheless, they are now extending their application to biology.
Jean‐Elie Zheng, Xavier Franck, Thibault Gallavardin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ART adherence changes among patients in community substance use treatment: a preliminary analysis from MACH14

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2012
Background Opiate substitution treatment has been associated with better adherence to lifesaving antiretroviral medications, but the impact of other substance abuse treatment on adherence is unknown.
Rosen Marc I, Black Anne C, Arnsten Julia H, Simoni Jane M, Wagner Glann J, Goggin Kathleen, Remien Robert H, Golin Carol E, Wang Yan, Bangsberg David, Liu Honghu H   +10 more
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The 730 nm Picosecond Titanium Sapphire Laser for Treatment of Kratom‐Induced Hyperpigmentation

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This case series reports the use of the 730‐nm picosecond titanium‐sapphire laser in the treatment of kratom‐induced hyperpigmentation, a dermatological side effect associated with the use of Mitragyna speciosa, which remains poorly understood. Methods A series of patients with kratom‐induced hyperpigmentation were treated using the
Alanoud A. Alhadyani, Christen Samaan, Girish S. Munavalli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment Experience Using a Micro‐Induction Buprenorphine Protocol for Chronic Pain in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) experience painful vaso‐occlusive episodes that increase with age; a subset develops chronic pain (CP). CP is usually managed with acute pain management guidelines despite evidence of ineffectiveness.
Ashwin Patel, Grace Kalmus, Carlton Dampier, Ifeyinwa Osunkwo, Tamara New, Beatrice Gee, Elna Saah   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated treatment of hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (INTRO-HCV)

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background A large proportion of people who inject drugs (PWID) living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have not been treated. It is unknown whether inclusion of HCV diagnostics and treatment into integrated substance use disorder treatment and ...
Lars T. Fadnes, Christer Frode Aas, Jørn Henrik Vold, Christian Ohldieck, Rafael Alexander Leiva, Fatemeh Chalabianloo, Svetlana Skurtveit, Ole Jørgen Lygren, Olav Dalgård, Peter Vickerman, Håvard Midgard, Else-Marie Løberg, Kjell Arne Johansson, for the INTRO-HCV Study Group   +13 more
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Causal Inference with Truncation-by-Death and Unmeasured Confounding [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Clinical studies sometimes encounter truncation by death, rendering outcomes undefined. Statistical analysis based solely on observed survivors may give biased results because the characteristics of survivors differ between treatment groups. By principal stratification, the survivor average causal effect was proposed as a causal estimand defined in ...
arxiv  

European Consensus on Malabsorption—UEG & SIGE, LGA, SPG, SRGH, CGS, ESPCG, EAGEN, ESPEN, and ESPGHAN

United European Gastroenterology Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Malabsorption is a complex and multifaceted condition characterised by the defective passage of nutrients into the blood and lymphatic streams. Several congenital or acquired disorders may cause either selective or global malabsorption in both children and adults, such as cystic fibrosis, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), coeliac ...
Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Heinz Florian Hammer, Ilja Tacheci, Rosa Burgos, Stephane Schneider, Anastasiou Foteini, Aleksejs Derovs, Jutta Keller, Ilse Broekaert, Marianna Arvanitakis, Dan Lucian Dumitrascu, Oscar Segarra‐Cantón, Željko Krznarić, Juris Pokrotnieks, Gonçalo Nunes, Johann Hammer, Loris Pironi, Marc Sonyi, Cristina Maria Sabo, Juan Mendive, Adrien Nicolau, Jernej Dolinsek, Denisa Kyselova, Lucrezia Laterza, Antonio Gasbarrini, Teodora Surdea‐Blaga, Jorge Fonseca, Christos Lionis, Gino Roberto Corazza, Antonio Di Sabatino   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study to Validate a Self-Reported Version of the ONS Drug Dependence Questionnaire [PDF]

, 2011
Aim: A prospective study to establish the reliability of a self-completion version of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) questionnaire for assessing drug dependence of substance misuse clients.
Christo G., Darke S., Gossop M., Jehanli A., Lundy A., Luty J., M. Uddin, Marsden J., McLellan A. T., Poole W. K., R. Holland, Rosen C. S., Schwartz R. H., Sherman M. F., Simpson D. D., Singleton N., V. Maskrey, Vivancos R.   +17 more
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Early identification of the use of potent benzylbenzimidazoles (nitazenes) through wastewater analysis: Two years of data from 22 countries

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Aims The use of new synthetic opioids, such as the highly potent 2‐benzylbenzimidazoles (i.e. nitazene) drugs, is a global health concern because of their increased risk of fatal overdose. In the early 2020s, nitazene analogues were linked to significant numbers of overdoses in the United States.
Richard Bade, Dhayaalini Nadarajan, Wayne Hall, Jared A. Brown, NPS Wastewater Consortium, Jennifer Schumann   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source