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Morality and Medicine: Opium and Addiction in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale and The Moonstone

, 2017
Critics of Wilkie Collins asserted that he should have written about lighter, happier topics rather than focusing on such serious subjects. Entirely disregarding these opinions, Collins delved into the use of opium in his novels Armadale and The ...
Prindle, Joshua
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Effects of opium on hippocampal-dependent memory, antioxidant enzyme levels, oxidative stress markers, and histopathological changes of rat hippocampus

Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
Background: Opium addiction can affect various organs such as the liver, intestine, kidney, and brain. The hippocampus is one of the brain regions affected early on in Alzheimer's disease and has a vital role in neurogenesis, cognitive function, and ...
Ebrahim Abbasi, Fatemeh Mirzaei, Sodabeh Mashayekhi, Iraj Khodadadi, Alireza Komaki, Nafiseh Faraji, Seyed Alireza Vafaii   +6 more
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The Relationship between Opioid Addiction and Diameter of the Common Bile Duct [PDF]

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Journal, 2016
Introduction: According to statistics, opioid addiction is quite common in Iran. Pathologic dilatation of the Common Bile Duct (CBD) may be caused by mechanical obstruction or opioid consumption; the latter is especially common among chronic opium ...
Bita Dadpour, Veda Vakili, Robabeh Parhizi, Soudabeh Jalal, Maryam Parhizkar, Abbas Esmaeelzadeh, Majid khadem Rezaiyan   +6 more
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The historical foundations of the narcotic drug control regime [PDF]

This paper outlines the institutional history of the international narcotic drug control regime. It details the evolution of the control system, from its foundations at the beginning of the twentieth century - a period of mass, unregulated narcotic drug ...
Buxton, Julia
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Vaccines against Vice: A constructive technology assessment of immunotherapies for addiction [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis examines the development of active immunotherapies or ‘vaccines’ for drug addiction, within the framework of constructive technology assessment.
Hobbs, Abbi
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Treatment of opium addiction in persian medicine: A review study. [PDF]

J Educ Health Promot, 2021
Kamali M, Kamali H, Doustmohammadi M, Sheikhbardsiri H, Moghadari M.   +4 more
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Addiction, crime and insurgency: the transnational threat of Afghan opium.

, 2009
In a new report, Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium, UNODC shows the devastating consequences that the 900 tons of opium and 375 tons of heroin that are trafficked from Afghanistan every year have on the health and ...

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Associations of treatment completion against drug addiction with motivational interviewing and related factors in Afghanistan [PDF]

, 2018
2018-08Despite the increase in the number of drug treatment centers, patients with drug addicts have been increasing without the improvement of treatment in Afghanistan.
Hamajima, Nobuyuki, Saw, Yu Mon, Yamamoto, Eiko, Rasekh, Bakhtar, Azimi, Sayed, Kariya, Tetsuyoshi   +5 more
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Association of Opium Addiction with Coronary Artery Ectasia and Coronary Artery Disease. [PDF]

Addict Health, 2021
Bahrami N, Asadikaram G, Masoumi M.
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Higher Morbidity and Mortality in Trauma Intensive Care Unit Patients with Opium Addiction. [PDF]

Addict Health, 2021
Ahmadinejad M, Karimi-Aliabadi H, Dehghan M, Mangolian P, Tajoddini S.   +4 more
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