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...
Concordance between ICD-10 alcohol and drug use disorder criteria and diagnoses as measured by the AUDADIS-ADR, CIDI and SCAN: results of a cross-national study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 1997;47(3):207-216.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 35. Ustün B, Compton W, Mager D, et al. WHO Study...
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
Of the 225 admissions for an asthma exacerbation, 44 (19.6%) had co-occurrent heroin-dependence.CONCLUSIONS: There is a strong association between heroin dependence and hospital admission for an asthma exacerbation.CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Provision of specialized substance-use treatment for inhalational ...
The historical patterns of opiate use show that sources and methods of access greatly influence who is at risk. Today, there is evidence that an enormous increase in the availability of prescription opiates is fuelling a rise in addiction nationally, drawing in new initiates to these drugs and ...
Take-home fentanyl test strips among people who use heroin,University of New South Wales (UNSW),Interventional,Not Applicable
The study´s aims were to investigate levels of allergic mediators in long-term injecting drug users (IDU) compared to healthy controls and to determine if oral opioid substitution therapy (OST) resulted in similar allergic symptoms to those reported by IDU after intravenous (IV) heroin use. ...
Brady KT, Sinha R: Co-occurring mental and substance use disorders: the neurobiological effects of chronic stress. Am J Psychiatry. 2005, 162: 1483-1493. 10.1176/appi.ajp.162.8.1483. Article PubMed Google Scholar Cuthbert BN: The RDoC framework: facilitating transition from ICD/DSM to dimens...
The historical patterns of opiate use show that sources and methods of access greatly influence who is at risk. Today, there is evidence that an enormous increase in the availability of prescription opiates is fuelling a rise in addiction nationally, drawing in new initiates to these drugs and ...
The study´s aims were to investigate levels of allergic mediators in long-term injecting drug users (IDU) compared to healthy controls and to determine if oral opioid substitution therapy (OST) resulted in similar allergic symptoms to those reported by IDU after intravenous (IV) heroin use....