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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Developmental Neurotoxicity of Alcohol and Anesthetic Drugs Is Augmented by Co-Exposure to Caffeine
Brain Sciences, 2013 Anesthetic and anti-epileptic drugs used in pediatric and obstetric medicine and several drugs, including alcohol, that are abused by pregnant women, trigger widespread neuroapoptosis in the developing brain of several animal species, including non-human
Catherine E. Creeley +2 more
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Sex and Gender Differences in the Effects of Novel Psychoactive Substances
Brain Sciences, 2020 Sex and gender deeply affect the subjective effects and pharmaco-toxicological responses to drugs. Men are more likely than women to use almost all types of illicit drugs and to present to emergency departments for serious or fatal intoxications. However,
Liana Fattore +3 more
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The role of setting for ketamine abuse: clinical and preclinical evidence [PDF]
, 2012 Drug abuse is often seen as a unitary phenomenon, partly as a result of the discovery over the past three decades of shared mechanisms of action for addictive substances. Yet the pattern of drug taking is often very different from drug to drug.
Sprenger +8 more
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Adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study: Overview of substance use assessment methods. [PDF]
, 2018 One of the objectives of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (https://abcdstudy.org/) is to establish a national longitudinal cohort of 9 and 10 year olds that will be followed for 10 years in order to prospectively study the risk and
Bartsch, Hauke +9 more
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Les psychotropes criminogènes [PDF]
, 2007 Les psychotropes altèrent le psychisme d’un individu et peuvent affecter les perceptions, l’humeur, la conscience, le comportement et diverses fonctions psychologiques et physiques.
Ben Amar, Mohamed
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2009 Background Laboratory tests for routine drug of abuse and toxicology (DOA/Tox) screening, often used in emergency medicine, generally utilize antibody-based tests (immunoassays) to detect classes of drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates ...
Siam Mohamed G +5 more
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Recreational use, analysis and toxicity of tryptamines [PDF]
, 2015 The definition New psychoactive substances (NPS) refers to emerging drugs whose chemical structures are similar to other psychoactive compounds but not identical, representing a "legal" alternative to internationally controlled drugs.
Mannocchi, Giulio +3 more
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Ketamine-Based Anesthetic Protocols and Evoked Potential Monitoring: A Risk/Benefit Overview
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016 Since its discovery, ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist related to phencyclidine, has been linked to multiple adverse reactions sometimes described as out of body and near death experiences, including emergence ...
Nicoleta eStoicea +8 more
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مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی بیرجند, 2022 Screening tests (UDSTs) for the diagnosis of psychoactive drugs can identify drug abuse, improve workplace safety, ensure community health, and play a critical role in therapeutic drug monitoring.
Bamdad Riahi-Zanjani
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