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Addictive drugs and stress trigger similar change in brain cells, animal study finds

community settings

[No authors listed]
GSID: DZfBJVgIAy0J
P Zickler, NNS Writer - NIDA Notes, 2003 - radarcart.boisestate.edu

Researchers injected mice with either saline, an addictive drug (cocaine, amphetamine, morphine, nicotine, or alcohol), or a nonaddictive drug that is active in the brain …

Is khat-chewing associated with HIV risk behaviour? A community-based study from Ethiopia.

African journal of AIDS research : AJAR

Dawit A, Debella A, Dejene A, Abebe A, Mekonnen Y, Degefa A, Ketema L.
PMID: 25875147
Afr J AIDS Res. 2006 May;5(1):61-9. doi: 10.2989/16085900609490367.

This study examines the possible association between the stimulant khat and risky sexual behaviour that might aggravate the spread of HIV. A community-based cross-sectional survey involving 4 000 individuals and focus group discussions were conducted to assess the attitudes...

The use of Rapid Assessment Methodology (RAM) for investigating illicit drug use: a South Australian experience.

Drug and alcohol review

Vincent N, Allsop S, Shoobridge J.
PMID: 28474442
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2000 Dec;19(4):419-426. doi: 10.1080/713659426.

This paper describes a research methodology, combining qualitative and quantitative tools, which has been used to investigate patterns of illicit amphetamine use and associated hazards and harms in both urban and rural areas in South Australia. The Rapid Assessment...

Work Predictors of Lapse in Patients under Treatment of Methadone Maintenance Therapy.

Iranian journal of psychiatry

Mehrdad R, Zarbafi B, Pouryaghoub G, Saraeei M.
PMID: 27006672
Iran J Psychiatry. 2015 Sep;10(4):273-7.

BACKGROUND: Addiction to narcotics ‎can cause serious problems and ‎monetary losses. Therapeutic ‎success can be predicted ‎through identifying lapse risk ‎factors.‎OBJECTIVE: Determining Job Risk ‎Factor of Lapse.‎METHODS: This was a cross ‎sectional study on 351 addicts ‎visiting five methadone...

"Bath Salts" intoxication with multiorgan failure and left-sided ischemic colitis: a case report.

Hippokratia

Gavriilidis G, Kyriakoudi A, Tiniakos D, Rovina N, Koutsoukou A.
PMID: 27703310
Hippokratia. 2015 Oct-Dec;19(4):363-365.

BACKGROUND: In the recent years, a new group of designer drugs, under the brand name of bath salts has emerged as a new trend. They are mainly b-ketone amphetamine analogs and are derivatives of cathinone, a monoamine alkaloid. They...

New developments in the management of narcolepsy.

Nature and science of sleep

Abad VC, Guilleminault C.
PMID: 28424564
Nat Sci Sleep. 2017 Mar 03;9:39-57. doi: 10.2147/NSS.S103467. eCollection 2017.

Narcolepsy is a life-long, underrecognized sleep disorder that affects 0.02%-0.18% of the US and Western European populations. Genetic predisposition is suspected because of narcolepsy's strong association with HLA DQB1*06-02, and genome-wide association studies have identified polymorphisms in T-cell receptor...

Impurities in Illicit Drug Preparations: Amphetamine and Methamphetamine.

Forensic science review

Verweij AM.
PMID: 26266521
Forensic Sci Rev. 1989 Jun;1(1):1-11.

In this review, attention is paid to chromatographic and mass spectral properties of already identified impurities found to be present in frequently abused drug preparations of illegal origin of amphetamine and methamphetamine. The most commonly employed methods of synthesis...

Acute myocardial infarction with multiple coronary thromboses in a young addict of amphetamines and benzodiazepines.

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Al Shehri MA, Youssef AA.
PMID: 27358538
J Saudi Heart Assoc. 2016 Jul;28(3):180-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jsha.2015.11.004. Epub 2015 Dec 02.

A 35-year-old man of average build and a smoker, with a background of a psychiatric disorder, was brought by his neighbor to the emergency department after an hour of severe chest pain. Upon arrival at the hospital he had...

Legal highs: staying on top of the flood of novel psychoactive substances.

Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology

Baumeister D, Tojo LM, Tracy DK.
PMID: 26240749
Ther Adv Psychopharmacol. 2015 Apr;5(2):97-132. doi: 10.1177/2045125314559539.

There has been growing clinical, public, and media awareness and concern about the availability and potential harmfulness of so-called 'legal highs', which are more appropriately called new or novel psychoactive substances (NPS). A cat-and-mouse process has emerged wherein unknown...

Clinical Course of γ-Hydroxybutyrate Overdose.

Annals of emergency medicine

Chin RL, Sporer KA, Cullison B, Dyer JE, Wu TD.
PMID: 28140165
Ann Emerg Med. 1998 Jun;31(6):716-722.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical characteristics and course of γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) overdose.METHODS: We assembled a retrospective series of all cases of GHB ingestion seen in an urban public-hospital emergency department and entered in a computerized database January 1993...

Correction: Hoops et al., Dopamine Development in the Mouse Orbital Prefrontal Cortex is Protracted and Sensitive to Amphetamine in Adolescence (eNeuro January/February 2018, 5(1) e0372-17.2017 1-9 https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0372-17.2017.

eNeuro

[No authors listed]
PMID: 29488511
eNeuro. 2018 Feb 26;5(1). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0026-18.2018. eCollection 2018.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0372-17.2017.][This corrects the article DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0372-17.2017.].

A Web-Based Intervention for Users of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants: 3-Month Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

JMIR mental health

Tait RJ, McKetin R, Kay-Lambkin F, Carron-Arthur B, Bennett A, Bennett K, Christensen H, Griffiths KM.
PMID: 26543901
JMIR Ment Health. 2014 Sep 11;1(1):e1. doi: 10.2196/mental.3278. eCollection 2014.

BACKGROUND: Among illicit drugs, the prevalence of amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) use is second only to cannabis. Currently, there are no approved pharmacotherapies for ATS problems, but some face-to-face psychotherapies are effective. Web-based interventions have proven to be effective for...

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