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Toxicological Analysis of Some Drugs of Abuse in Biological Samples [PDF]

, 2015
Consumption of drugs of abuse is a scourge of modern world. Abuse, drug addiction and their consequences are one of the major current problems of European society because of the significant repercussions in individual, family, social and economic level ...
Baconi, Daniela Luiza, Bârcă, Maria, Bălălău, Cristian, Ciobanu, Anne Marie, Negrei, Carolina, Stan, Miriana   +5 more
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Reemergence of Intravenous Drug Use as Risk Factor for Candidemia, Massachusetts, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
The epidemic of illicit intravenous drug use (IVDU) in the United States has been accompanied by a surge in drug overdose deaths and infectious sequelae.
Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, Anamika Dutta, Shannon Stock, Sunkaru Touray, Richard T. Ellison, Stuart M. Levitz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Confronting the opioid crisis with consumer health information: a look at East Tennessee

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2021
Background: Starting in the 1990s, health care providers began prescribing opioids to patients as pain relievers, believing they were safe. However, many patients became addicted to these pills.
Kelsey Leonard Grabeel, Jenny C. Moore
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Single high-dose buprenorphine for opioid craving during withdrawal. [PDF]

, 2018
BackgroundOpioid use disorder is one of the most prevalent addiction problems worldwide. Buprenorphine is used as a medication to treat this disorder, but in countries where buprenorphine is unavailable in combination with naloxone, diversion can be a ...
Ahmadi, Jamshid, Ghahremani, Dara, Jahromi, Mina Sefidfard, London, Edythe D   +3 more
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Patterns and sociodemographic characteristics of substance abuse among hepatitis C virus-infected patients in Iraq: a cross-sectional study

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
Background Substance use disorders are a widely recognized problem among hepatitis C-infected patients; moreover, substance abuse by intravenous injection is a common mode of transmission of the hepatitis C virus worldwide. The frequency of substance use
Noor Ali Hasan, Nesif Al-Hemiary
doaj   +1 more source

Sociodemographic and clinical profile of drug treatment seekers attending the State Psychiatric Hospital and Drug De-addiction Center at Agartala, Tripura

Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Substance use disorders have become a widespread public health problem, especially in the northeastern states, and limited studies have been undertaken to reflect the picture of the same.
Udayan Majumder, Joysree Das, Swapan Chandra Barman, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Bimal Krishna Bhowmic   +4 more
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Injecting equipment schemes for injecting drug users : qualitative evidence review [PDF]

, 2009
This review of the qualitative literature about needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) for injecting drug users (IDUs) complements the review of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
Akhionbare, Kate, Bagnall, Anne-Marie, Burrell, Kim, Cattan, Mima   +3 more
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Decreased dopamine activity predicts relapse in methamphetamine abusers. [PDF]

, 2012
Studies in methamphetamine (METH) abusers showed that the decreases in brain dopamine (DA) function might recover with protracted detoxification. However, the extent to which striatal DA function in METH predicts recovery has not been evaluated.
Alia-Klein, N, Fowler, JS, Hoffman, W, Jayne, M, Logan, J, Smith, L, Telang, F, Thanos, P, Tomasi, D, Volkow, ND, Wang, GJ, Wong, CT   +11 more
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Impact of Asymptomatic Intracranial Hemorrhage on Outcome After Endovascular Stroke Treatment

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Endovascular treatment (EVT) achieves high rates of recanalization in acute large‐vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke, but functional recovery remains heterogeneous. While symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) has been well studied, the prognostic impact of asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (aICH) after EVT is less certain ...
Shihai Yang, Chengsong Yue, Zhuang Li, Xiaolei Shi, Haoxuan Zhu, Jie Yang, Linyu Li, Jiaxing Song, Shitao Fan, Gaoming Li, Wenzhe Sun, Zhixian Ye, Jiacheng Huang, Dahong Yang, Jinfu Ma, Xu Xu, Zhixi Wang, Lilan Wang, Guojian Liu, Fengli Li, Changwei Guo, Li Qi, Wenjie Zi   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychiatric and Medical Co-morbidities among the substance abusers presenting at Patna Medical college- A clinical study

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Background: The link between hazardous types of illegal drug use and significant public health issues is a critical issue for national and international drug policy. There are several negative health effects connected with drug use, with the avoidance of
Vivek Pratap Singh , Abhishek Pratap Singh , Narendra Pratap Singh   +2 more
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