Heroin use disorder included use disorder overall, abuse, dependence, the abuse and dependence criteria, driving under the influence of heroin, and the number of lifetime heroin disorder criteria (0-1, 2-3, 4-5, and ≥6). Other Substance Use Lifetime use of other substances (sedatives or...
Patients in the TC cohort (n = 1,195) received the diagnosis of heroin dependence according to clinical judgement; they were evaluated at the time they entered the TC. The mean age of this sample was 33.8 ± 7.7 years; 81.4% of the subjects were male, 90.2% were single, educational lev...
Patients in the TC cohort (n = 1,195) received the diagnosis of heroin dependence according to clinical judgement; they were evaluated at the time they entered the TC. The mean age of this sample was 33.8 ± 7.7 years; 81.4% of the subjects were male, 90.2% were single, educational lev...
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Heroin dependence is a severe and chronically relapsing substance use disorder with limited treatment options. Stress is known to increase craving and drug-taking behavior, but it is not known whether the stress hormone cortisol mediates these stress eff
Heroin use is illegal in both the United States and China; however, use in the United States increased by more than 40% between 2006 (1.6 million users) and 2016 (2.3 million users) especially among those aged 18–25, before it started to decline in 2017. In China, the number of regis...
Clin. Med. 2019, 8, 321 2 of 12 of methadone as a substitution therapy for opioid dependence. Despite the effectiveness of the methadone maintenance treatment [4], previous studies have found that sexual dysfunction, including hypoactive sexual desire disorder, erectile dysfunction, and orgasmic ...