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HCV treatment for prevention among people who inject drugs: Modeling treatment scale-up in the age of direct-acting antivirals. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
UNLABELLED: Substantial reductions in hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) cannot be achieved by harm reduction interventions such as needle exchange and opiate substitution therapy (OST) alone. Current HCV treatment is
Aitken   +56 more
core   +5 more sources

Abstinence Alters Triple Network Dynamics in Moderate‐to‐Heavy Drinkers

open access: yesHuman Brain Mapping, Volume 46, Issue 18, 15 December 2025.
A hidden semi‐Markov model was used to investigate differences in the dynamics of brain states among moderate to heavy drinkers under two conditions: typical drinking and alcohol abstinence. The results demonstrated altered dynamics, including a reduced probability of transitioning to a state characterized by high salience network activation in the ...
Mohammadreza Khodaei   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Substance Use Among Iranian Youth: A Nationwide Cross‐Sectional Study on the Prevalence, Pattern, and Its Associated Factors

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Substance use poses a considerable challenge with adverse consequences on physical and psychological well‐being, and societal dynamics, particularly among adolescents and young adults. This cross‐sectional study aimed to investigate substance use prevalence and its associated factors among high school students across Iran ...
Farshad Hadianfard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
: Opioids and Child Welfare Across the country, placements in foster care are rising. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 273,539 children in the U.S. entered foster care.
American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Patterns and Predictors of Steroid Use in a Real‐World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort

open access: yesJGH Open, Volume 9, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Patterns of steroid use in inflammatory bowel disease remain poorly characterized in real‐world settings. Steroid exposure is associated with adverse effects and often indicates suboptimally controlled disease. Therefore, patterns and predictors of steroid use in a large inflammatory bowel disease cohort were examined.
Rodger Wu   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mobile telephone contingency management to encourage adherence to supervised medication among individuals most at risk of non-adherence to opioid agonist treatment: a study protocol for a feasibility study (TIES2)

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Supervision of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) ensures that individuals take their correct daily dose to minimise withdrawal and craving, safeguard against diversion and overdose, and receive optimal benefit from OAT. There is an urgent need to
Nicola Metrebian   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The SUMMIT trial: a field comparison of buprenorphine versus methadone maintenance treatment. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This prospective patient-preference study examined the effectiveness in practice of methadone versus buprenorphine maintenance treatment and the beliefs of subjects regarding these drugs. A total of 361 opiate-dependent individuals (89% of those eligible,
Holland, R   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Hair Testing in Forensic Toxicology: Recent Insights From Root to Tip

open access: yesWIREs Forensic Science, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2025.
The power of hair drug testing. Created in BioRender. Rygaard, K. (2025) https://BioRender.com/ld3an8x. ABSTRACT Hair testing is a powerful tool in forensic toxicology, particularly for identifying past substance exposure when blood or urine samples are collected too late.
Karen Rygaard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of needle/syringe programmes and opiate substitution therapy in preventing HCV transmission among people who inject drugs. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To assess the impact of needle/syringe programmes with and without opiate substitution therapy (OST) on the incidence of HCV infection among people who inject ...
Amato   +26 more
core   +5 more sources

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 182, Issue S1, Page S24-S151, December 2025.
The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear,
Stephen P. H. Alexander   +206 more
wiley   +1 more source

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