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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

open access: yesHepatology, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Abstract 106: CHANTER Syndrome: A Case Report Of A 59 Year Old Man With Positive Outcome

open access: yesStroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2023
Introduction Cerebellar, Hippocampal, and Basal Nuclei Transient Edema with Restricted Diffusion (CHANTER) syndrome was first described in 2019 [1] as a pattern of radiographic findings that are distinct from ischemic, anoxic, or toxic brain injury ...
Sherif Elsayed   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid and Accurate Diagnosis of Substance Abuse: A Narrative Review

open access: yesطب انتظامی, 2023
Introduction One of the major problems in the world is drug abuse [1]. ... [2]. For accurate diagnosis of drug abuse, two important principles are the amount of substance remaining in the body and the time of testing ... [3, 4]. ... [5-10].
Fatemeh Heidarzadeh   +6 more
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Sex and Gender Differences in the Effects of Novel Psychoactive Substances

open access: yesBrain 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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Using molecular similarity to highlight the challenges of routine immunoassay-based drug of abuse/toxicology screening in emergency medicine

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ketamine-Based Anesthetic Protocols and Evoked Potential Monitoring: A Risk/Benefit Overview

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Retraining over the principles and mechanisms involved in the occurrence of false results from urine drug screening tests: Adulteration and strategies to defeat

open access: yesمجله 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
doaj  

Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Hallucinogenic Drugs: a Possible Relation to Reinforcing and Aversive Effects

open access: yesJournal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2012
The subjective effects of drugs are related to the kinds of feelings they produce, such as euphoria or dysphoria. One of the methods that can be used to study these effects is the drug discrimination procedure.
Tomohisa Mori   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pharmacological Investigations of the Dissociative 'Legal Highs' Diphenidine, Methoxphenidine and Analogues.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
1,2-Diarylethylamines including lanicemine, lefetamine, and remacemide have clinical relevance in a range of therapeutic areas including pain management, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disease and depression.
Jason Wallach   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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