The type of drug you take also raises the odds you’ll misuse it. Certain drugs are easier to get addicted to, including heroin and other opioids.
Characterization and Classification of Heroin from Illicit Drug Seizures Using the Agilent 7200 GC/Q-TOFAn untargeted GC/Q-TOF analysis approach has been used to successfully differentiate street heroin samples that may originate from separate criminal enterprises. The statistical analysis tools in ...
Heroin is a strong agonist of opioid receptors. As mentioned, heroin has a short half-life, requiring drug users to use it several times per day to maintain the effect. Additionally, tolerance usually develops over time, requiring consumers to take stronger and stronger doses to get the same ...
. Infants of drug-addicted mothers are often small for gestational age so it is perhaps not surprising that newborns of methadone-treated women have higher birth weights than offspring of heroin addicts but are still low for gestational age (Briggs et al., 2005). The major adverse outcome of...
These data reveal a functional role of miR-218 and its target, MeCP2, in the regulation of heroin-induced behavioral plasticity. Drug addiction is a psychiatric disorder characterized by loss of control over drug consumption and compul- sive drug taking despite serious negative consequences1. ...
Subjects found to be hypermethylated, with reduced expression in in the control group (N ¼ 135) had (1) no illicit drug use for the brains of schizophrenic patients (Abdolmaleky et al, more than 6 months (except cannabis), (2) no excessive use 2005; Grayson et al, 2005). Mutations...
Across Europe, illicit drug-related mortality has not declined despite ever increasing prevention measures. The cause of these deaths has traditionally been associated with overdose. Previous findings have revealed the appearance of non-lethal opioid concentrations, leading us to investigate a further caus...
The identification of major drug transformation pathways is necessary to close mass-balances in multi-level transformation routes. We note that measuring drug biomarkers, at the ng L−1 to µg L−1 range, is a labour-intensive and costly task, which involves quantitative analysis of target...
Across Europe, illicit drug-related mortality has not declined despite ever increasing prevention measures. The cause of these deaths has traditionally been associated with overdose. Previous findings have revealed the appearance of non-lethal opioid concentrations, leading us to investigate a further caus...
Given this background, and the consequent uncertainty in the correct classification of symptomatology as being intrinsic to the addictive disorder or as due to comorbidity, a low level of inference has been considered in approaching the psychopathology of addiction, while focusing primarily on the symp...