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Current Concepts on Drug Abuse and Dependence [PDF]
, 2015 Drug addiction is a complex disease characterized by compulsive and uncontrollable desire to seek and consume the drug. In time, drug-related terminology has undergone many changes, arising from the deepening of the mechanisms of action, but also about ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza +5 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Lipids in Health and Disease, 2008 Background There is a belief among some society that opium has a number of beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease. The aim of the present investigation as a cross-sectional study was to assess this hypothesis.
Naderi Gholam-Ali +3 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
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Cholangiographic Features in Opium-Addicted Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Iran
Gastroenterology Research and Practice, 2012 Background/Aims. Destructive and metabolic changes in hepatobiliary system have been demonstrated following opium use; however, cholangiographic features of bile ducts in opium-addicted patients with sphincter of Oddi dysfunction are not clearly ...
Amir Houshang Mohammad Alizadeh +5 more
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From Drug War to Culture War: Russia’s Growing Role in the Global Drug Debate [PDF]
, 2014 No abstract ...
Marshall, Alexander
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Opioids in breast cancer: Between analgesia and modulation of tumour progression
British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Preclinical investigations consistently demonstrate that activation of μ‐opioid receptors and δ‐opioid receptors promote proliferation, migration, angiogenesis, epithelial‐mesenchymal transition, acquisition of cancer stem cell phenotypes, and chemoresistance.
Marianna Ciwun +2 more
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Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2009 The psychopathological pattern of the postwithdrawal state in opium addiction patients is discussed. The pathological addiction to the drug in dependence of premorbid personality characteristics and the inverse dynamics are analyzed.
A. A. Abetova, M. T. Meldekhanova
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The correlation between strength and range of motion of the neck muscles and opium smoking in Iran
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 ObjectivesOpium smoking is commonly practiced via traditional and novel routes in Iran. Both smoking methods are practiced in a non-ergonomic position. According to previous studies and our hypothesis, it can be potentially harmful to the cervical spine.
Omid Massah +6 more
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Medical Rhetoric and the Sympathetic “Inebriet”: 1870–1930 [PDF]
, 2019 The modern view of addiction as a progressive brain disease originated in the second half of the 19th and early decades of the 20th centuries. Historians attribute the shift from a moral to a medical concept to the efforts of a small but well-organized ...
Reeves, Carol
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