Deals with the 33-year study made by the University of California at Los Angeles Drug Abuse Research Center regarding a cohort of heroin addicts. Effects of heroin addiction; Diseases often afflicting heroin users; Methodologies used in the study....
Long-Term Effects on the Brain Drug addiction is such a difficult disease to overcome because drug abuse actually changes the brain. Drugs produce a sensation of pleasure because of how they act in the brain. Whether directly or indirectly, drugs of abuse target and activate the reward system ...
OBJECTIVE: We present the clinical, biochemical, and imaging findings of a woman with vitamin D deficiency and severe osteomalacia related to intravenous heroin addiction. RESULTS: A 54-year-old woman with a medical history significant for long-standing heroin abuse presented with complaints of bone...
This cohort study assesses the longer-term risks of overdose or mental health crisis associated with opioid dose tapering.
The undertaken studies regarding the long-term effects of marijuana are focused on the four body systems: respiratory, cardiovascular, immune and reproductive.
HIV seronegative experimental participants reported significantly less frequent needle sharing and less injecting of heroin and cocaine than controls. In multiple logistic regression models of HIV seronegative participants, there was a significant negative association between assignment to the experimental ...
Converging evidence supports a crucial role of LTD in some types of learning and memory and in situations in which cognitive demands require a flexible response. In addition, LTD may underlie the cognitive effects of acute stress, the addictive potential of some drugs of abuse and the elimination...
Heroin Cocaine Methadone This study evaluated the long-termeffects of a therapeutic workplace social business on drug abstinence and employment. Pregnant and postpartum women (N = 40) enrolled in methadone treatment were randomly assigned to a therapeutic workplace or usual care control group. Therap...
Reduced responses to heroin-cue-induced craving in the dorsal striatum: effects of long-term methadone maintenance treatment. Neurosci Lett. 2014;581:120–24. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Stevens A, Peschk I, Schwarz J. Implicit learning, executive function and hedonic activity in chronic polydrug...
Acute monocytic arthritis in a patient with a long history of heroin abuseNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1002/art.1780300320Eugene MiknowskiGeraldine P. SchechterDavid J. NashelArthritis & Rheumatism