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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"drug dependence"”.
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THE IMPACT OF ADOLESCENT NICOTINE EXPOSURE ON DRUG DEPENDENCE IN ADULTHOOD
… is one of the first and most commonly abused drugs in adolescence. According to The Center for Disease Control, every day more than 6000 adolescents try their first cigarette and over 3000 of them become daily smokers. Smoking among adolescents is a strong predictor of future drug abuse and …
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The Brazilian-Portuguese MCMI-III: Diagnostic Validity of the Alcohol Dependence and Drug Dependence Scales
… and examined the validity of its Alcohol Dependence and Drug Dependence scales for identifying substance-related disorders in a Brazilian sample. The diagnostic validity of these scales was examined by comparing participants' scores on the BP-MCMI-III against group status (controls versus …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE OF ONSET OF DRUG USE, DRUG DEPENDENCE, MENTAL DISORDERS, AND OFFENSE TYPE AND SEVERITY
… the relationship between age of onset of drug use and later drug dependence, and that of age of onset of drug use and current offense type/severity. In addition, it investigates the relationship between mental disorders, drug dependence, and current offense type/severity. Data from years …
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The Effect of Variability in Substance Abuse and Dependence Terminology on Physicians' Prescribing Decisions
Prescription drug abuse is a continuing problem in the United States. Educating physicians on issues related to prescription drug abuse is a key factor in preventing and treating this problem. High variability has been found in substance abuse terminology in the literature, textbooks, and …
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Heterologous Expression of Alpha 6*- Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and the Natural Distribution of Alpha 6 Subunits
… in brain regions implicated in reward, mood and drug dependence. To provide new information necessary toward a more complete understanding of roles of α6*-nAChR in neuropsychiatric health and disease, three lines of investigation were pursued. A set of stably transfected, human, immortalized cell …
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Individual differences in cocaine's locomotor activating effects predicts reward-directed behavior
… differences in susceptibility to develop drug dependence. Addiction-like behaviors have been modeled in rodents as well with similar individual variability in the development of addiction-like behaviors. One potential mechanism that could differentiate addiction-vulnerable from …
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The Attitude of Police Force in Facilitating Access to Health Services to People who use Narcotic Drugs in Tanzania
… the health services to people who use Narcotic drugs in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed to identify health related services available to drug abusers in Tanzania, examine the attitude of Police towards people who abuse drugs and establish whether attitude of Police hinders drug abusers …
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Genomic and non genomic effects of elevated concentration of anabolic steroids in human neuronal cells
… This effect can explain the behavioural changes, drug dependence and neuro degeneration observed in steroid abuser. Nandrolone treatment (10-8M–10-5M) caused a time- and concentration-dependent downregulation of mu opioid receptor (MOPr) transcripts in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells. This …
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Dynamic dualities: the ‘British system’ of heroin addiction treatment, 1965-1987
… the short-term and the long-term prescription of drugs to addicts. The establishment of specialised Drug Dependence Units (DDUs) in 1968 demonstrated that addiction was seen as both a disease to be treated and a social problem to be controlled. It is argued that the effects of this dynamic duality …
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Ethanol priming and its effects on consumption and accumbal plasticity
Alcohol abuse and dependence are major concerns in the United States because of their chronic, detrimental health effects and societal costs. The mesocorticolimbic pathway and the nucleus accumbens (NAc), in particular, play critical roles in the formation of drug dependence and expression of drug …
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A Dual Investigation of Questions in Drug Addiction: Exploring the Role of Neuroinflammation in Opioid Withdrawal and A Novel Measure of Reward-Seeking Behavior in Rodents
… following animal studies aimed to advance the drug addiction field by 1) investigating neuroimmune interactions as a potential mechanism in opioid withdrawal in mice as well as 2) introducing a novel behavioral test in order to expand the repertoire of tools available to researchers …
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The Role of Maternal Psychological Distress on Neurobehavioural Disinhibition among Preschoolers Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamine
… biological impact of MA exposure, maternal drug use may affect the child indirectly through the negative lifestyle and psychological factors associated with drug use. Of particular concern is the evidence that links drug dependence and maternal psychological distress with negative parenting …
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Social Vulnerability and Public Health: Developing A Metric For Medical Emergency Management In Florida
… chronic or communicable disease, disability, drug dependence) and health care access (i.e. hospital beds, physicians, insurance). Using a principal component analysis, the initial collection of candidate variables was reduced to a smaller set of underlying components. These components are …
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Benzodiazepine and opioid dependence. Clinical and meta-analytical studies.
… Five patients, all with concomitant codeine dependence and a more pronounced BZD tolerance, dropped out after 2-3 days. In the dependence rate study (Paper II) the frequency of prescribed drug dependence among 130 alcohol dependent patients in open care, 23 long-term institutionalized …
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The relationship between the MCMI-III and the MMPI-2 in a chronic pain population.
… by MCMI-III clinical scales "4" Histrionic, "T" Drug Dependence and "2A" Avoidant. Nineteen pre-and post-MCMI-IIIs were analyzed for change after participants completed the six-week pain management program. Paired-sample t-tests were performed on these data and revealed that significant change …
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An Exploration of how the Social Supply and User-Dealer Supply of Illicit Drugs Differs to Conventional Notions of Drug Dealing and Consideration of the Consequences of this for Sentencing Policy
… both in the UK, and internationally, to describe drug distribution that is non-commercially motivated and almost exclusively found between friends and acquaintances. Social suppliers have increasingly been presented as actors who are qualitatively different to drug dealers (proper), in relation to …
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Modificazioni neuronali nella via abenulo-mesencefalica durante l’astinenza da Δ9-tetraidrocannabinolo
… and withdrawal, the critical phases of the drug addiction cycle. These adaptive changes, which result from imbalances between excitatory and inhibitory afferents onto DA cells, are thought to play a critical role into withdrawal-induced negative affective states that eventually lead to …
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Sex differences in PFC-related behavior after amphetamine exposure and across adolescent development
… and risk taking. Experimentation with drug use during this period can have especially harmful consequences, however, as adolescent-onset substance use is more likely to lead to dependence. Brain regions within the mesocorticolimbic circuit are involved in the control of reward behavior …
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Drug Addiction-to-Recovery Trajectories in British Sociocultural and Political Contexts: A Synthetic Discursive Exploration
User of certain illegal drugs are arguably the most stigmatised group in British society. Moreover, people who are known to have a history of drug dependence are rarely given the opportunity to talk about their lives (Tutengs et al., 2015) much less be listened to by those who are willing and able …
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