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The iceberg of opium addiction an epidemiological survey of opium addiction in a rural community

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1978
As part of a medico-social survey in a rural population in the northern part of Iran, data concerning opium users was collected from randomly chosen households. The addiction rate was found to be 69/1000. The rate of registered addicts in the same population is 11/1000.
A.A. Alemi, M.M. Naraghi
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Opium addiction and lead poisoning

Journal of Substance Use, 2011
Background: Exposure to lead is usually considered only when a patient's history points to well-known traditional sources of lead. Although the incidence of lead poisoning has declined, the new forms of this type of poisoning still exist. Recently, unusual causes of chronic lead poisoning such as substance abuses have been described.
Kambiz Soltaninejad, Andreas Flückiger, Shahin Shadnia   +2 more
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OPIUM ADDICTION

The Lancet, 1937
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A new taper-off treatment of opium dependents can lead to cure of the addiction as well as an improvement of cognitive functions

MOJ Addiction Medicine & Therapy, 2023
Aim: Opium addiction is the most prevalent addiction in all Middle East countries including Iran. Since 1998, a nongovernmental organization called "congress 60", has developed an opium addiction treatment method based on taper-off dosage of opium using ...
H. Dezhakam, Amin Dezhakam, Shani Dezhakam, Arvin Haghighatfard   +3 more
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‘Madat makan orang’; opium eats people: Opium addiction as a public health issue in late colonial Java, 1900–1940

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2020
By the 1890s the Dutch had noticed the escalation of opium addiction in colonial Indonesia. They believed that opium consumption had brought about health problems and other negative socioeconomic effects.
Abdul Wahid
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Treating Opium Addiction in China: Medical Missionaries, Chinese Medicine, and the State, 1830-1910.

Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences
From the 1830s onward, Euro-American medicine began addressing opium addiction among the Chinese population. Drawing upon records from medical missionaries, medical journals, and related Chinese sources, this article examines the transformation of opium ...
Shihan Zheng
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Management of Smack/Opium Addiction through Ayurveda Intervention : A Case Series

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medical Sciences
Opium and its derivative addiction are rampant in western Rajasthan, because it is easily available. Opioids, which include heroin (or its impure form, smack or brown sugar), a range of medicinal opioids, are used by about 2.1% of the population in India.
Mukesh Prajapati, Madhavi Dholariya, Ashwini Gaikwad, Poonam Garg, Anita Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Kumawat   +5 more
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Association of Opium Addiction with Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms: A Case-Control Study.

World Neurosurgery, 2019
BACKGROUND Disorders related to opioid use account for the most substantial burden of disease attributable to drug use disorders. We aimed to justify if there is an association between either opium consumption or addiction and rupture of intracranial ...
M. Dayyani, S. Zabihyan, M. Salehi, H. Baharvahdat, S. Ahmadi, H. Etemadrezaie   +5 more
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Increasing the Risk of Stroke by Opium Addiction.

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2019
INTRODUCTION Stroke is among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. Besides the identified risk factor, Ischemic stroke evidence show drug use develops or exacerbates the atherosclerotic process.
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi-Mirzaei, A. Talebi, Alireza Amirabadizadeh, S. Nakhaee, Ghodsieh Azarkar, O. Mehrpour   +5 more
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Potential effect of opium addiction on lipid profile and blood glucose concentration in type 2 diabetic patients in Iran

Journal of Substance Use, 2019
Background: Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. People believe that opium improves blood glucose and lipid profiles in these patients and controversial studies show the effect of consumption of opium in controlling these ...
Somayeh Hoseini, S. A. Saadatjoo, S. Nakhaee, Alireza Amirabadizadeh, M. Rezaie, O. Mehrpour   +5 more
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