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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Heroin"”.
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Brownies Like Heroin
<p>Vivian Sideropolis feels restless again, so she visits her old college roommate, Amy, in Richmond, Virginia. Once she arrives, Vivian finds Amy's family bakery in financial trouble and resolves to help her friend win a local baking competition, hoping the prize money will pay the company's …
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Careers With Heroin
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
… in individuals with a long history of heroin/crack cocaine dependence. This investigation uses attachment theory (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) as a central pillar of the explanatory framework, while also drawing upon psychodynamic concepts to illuminate and …
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Heroin detoxification during pregnancy: a systematic review and retrospective study of management of heroin addiction in pregnancy
… the gold standard in the management of pregnant heroin users. However, in South African state hospitals, methadone withdrawal is the routine procedure offered to these patients, as methadone maintenance programmes are unavailable in the public sector.
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Long-Term Heroin Careers: Narratives of Persistence
… seeks to understand persistence in long-term heroin careers. This includes thick description of the processes and micro level interactions experienced by heroin users. In addition, it aims to account for variation found within heroin careers as well as differences between the careers of heroin …
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An exploration of a new heroin outbreak
… 1999; McElrath, 2004). A noteworthy example, heroin and injecting drug use, which did not emerge in a significant way in Northern Ireland until the mid to late 1990s. The phenomenon, whereby drug injection is newly introduced or shows signs of rapid increase, has been documented in a range of …
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An exploration of the process of recovery from heroin dependence
… and sociological processes in recovery from heroin dependence. However, there is still some uncertainty surrounding the definition of 'recovery'. This research portfolio explores the concept of recovery from heroin dependence and how different psycho-social factors, methadone maintenance and …
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Euphoria: The Transition from Prescription Opioids to Heroin in Kentucky
… the streets, users then moved to another opiate, heroin. Since 2012, heroin related overdoses have increased significantly in the Bluegrass State. The purpose of this study is to better understand the transition from prescription opioid abuse to heroin among prior users in the city of Louisville. …
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The Heroin Problem: Learning From Past Experiments In Narcotic Maintenance
… political, legal and cultural debate regarding heroin maintenance in the U.S. that emerged after the passage of the Harrison Act. Moreover, it focuses on the United States' very brief experimentation with narcotics maintenance clinics from 1914-1924 and why the clinic system was ultimately …
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An exploratory study of heroin addicts' perceptions of methadone treatment
… be the most widely used treatment modality for heroin addiction despite continued controversy. The efficacy of methadone treatment has been determined primarily by statistical research of program outcomes. This study explored heroin addicts' perceptions of methadone treatment.
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Life events, stress and the consumption of heroin, alcohol and tobacco
… groups of substance user; these were a group of heroin users, a group of drinkers and a group of tobacco smokers. These subjects were interviewed at three month intervals over an eighteen month period. At each interview measures of previous weeks drug consumption and of life events from the three …
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Dynamic dualities: the ‘British system’ of heroin addiction treatment, 1965-1987
This thesis is concerned with the treatment of heroin addiction between 1965 and 1987. It examines a series of conflicts between seemingly opposed forces: between the medical and the social, the specialist and the generalist, the public and the private provision of healthcare, and the short-term …
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Patient participation, encounter, and methadone-reinforcement in the treatment of heroin addicts
… the author (and others) that was conducted with heroin addicts and drug abusers undergoing behavioral and pharmacological therapy at Stockton State Hospital, Stockton, California.</p> <p>From June 1970 to December 1970 the Research Department of Stockton State Hospital, in conjunction with the …
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Stability of heroin metabolites and oxycodone in rat hair and liver during decomposition
… in the second trial, rats were administered heroin over nine days then drug abstinent for another nine days. After each respective treatment the rats were sacrificed and buried in controlled burial microcosms. Concentrations of oxycodone and selected metabolites or the metabolites of heroin; …
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Where do all the spoons go? : perceptions of parents of adult heroin users
[From the introduction]:Research aims and objectivesThis thesis aims to discover what sorts of tensions (if any) were created for parents when their problematic drug using adult offspring were mandated into drug treatment programmes in the community, and when their offspring engaged with treatment …
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Behavioural and cellular basis of the vulnerability to develop compulsive heroin seeking habits
… opioid drug abuse and addiction in the UK, heroin addiction has hitherto been under-investigated. Using a novel preclinical model of compulsive heroin seeking behaviour in which some rats self-administering heroin persist in responding under a second-order schedule of reinforcement despite …
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Functional Alterations in the Dopamine Transporter of Rodents following Self-Administration of Cocaine, Heroin and Speedball
Cocaine/heroin combinations (speedball) induce a synergistic elevation in extracellular dopamine (DA) concentrations ([DA]<sub>e</sub>) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) that can explain the continued patterns of abuse even after seeking treatment for heroin addiction. To further delineate the …
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