Evaluation of the analgesic effect of 4-anilidopiperidine scaffold containing ureas and carbamates [PDF]
Fentanyl is a powerful opiate analgesic typically used for the treatment of severe and chronic pain, but its prescription is strongly limited by the well-documented side-effects.
Benyhe, Sa ́ndor +18 more
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Drug Policy and the HIV Pandemic in Russia and Ukraine [PDF]
Over the past three years Russia and Ukraine have experienced one of the fastest growing HIV pandemics in Europe. In contrast to other parts of the world, the main driver behind the rate of infection is injecting drug use. Recent government policies have
Klein, Axel +2 more
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Engaging Gut‐to‐Brain Signalling to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder
ABSTRACT According to the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 28.9 million people ages 12 and older in the United States had alcohol use disorder (AUD) in the past year. Although chronic alcohol use contributes to numerous health disorders as well as being an economic burden, there are few medications approved for treatment of AUD, and
Paula L. Hoffman +15 more
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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
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Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It [PDF]
: 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
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Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general practitioners. A cross-sectional survey of general practitioners with and without methadone patients in Switzerland [PDF]
Background In Switzerland, general practitioners (GPs) manage most of the patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). Methods Using a cross-sectional postal survey of GPs who treat MMT patients and GPs who do not, we studied the ...
Anne Pelet +22 more
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Memories of rewarding experiences powerfully shape behavior, yet when maladaptive, they can drive psychiatric conditions including addiction, depression, and PTSD. Memory traces, or engrams, have been extensively studied for fear memories in the hippocampal dentate gyrus.
Lorianna M. Colón +2 more
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HCV epidemiology in high-risk groups and the risk of reinfection [PDF]
Injecting risk behaviours among people who inject drugs (PWID) and high-risk sexual practices among men who have sex with men (MSM) are important routes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission.
Dalgard, Olav +6 more
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Predominant Symptom in Gastroparesis: Relationships to Quality of Life, Treatments, and Outcome
In patients with gastroparesis, the most common predominant symptoms were nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Impaired QOL varied with patients' predominant symptom, with abdominal pain associated with poorer QOL. Over 48 weeks, GSCI improved ≥ 1 in a minority of patients, more often in patients with predominant symptoms of nausea and bloating, less ...
Henry P. Parkman +16 more
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The newer opioid agonist treatment with lower substitutive opiate doses is associated with better toxicology outcome than the older harm reduction treatment [PDF]
Background: Charge-free heroin use disorder treatment in Italy follows two main approaches, i.e., harm reduction treatment (HRT) strategy in community low-threshold facilities for drug addiction and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in high-threshold ...
Bacciardi, Silvia +8 more
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