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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"drug treatment"”.
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Discourses in drug treatment: ‘Exploring the meaning of drug treatment in the Crinan Youth Project’
The Crinan Youth Project is a systemic treatment programme for young people in Dublin who have developed personal, social, learning, economic and legal difficulties as a result of their use of heroin. This qualitative research inquiry examines the meaning of drug treatment in this project through …
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Anti-malaria drug treatment in Vietnam
Resistance to antimalarial drugs is increasing nearly everywhere in the tropical world, confounding global attempts to "Roll Back Malaria". Antimalarial treatment with artemisinin, artesunate, or artemether has proved rapidly effective in the treatment of non complicated and complicated malaria and …
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Pretreatment Characteristics of Legally Coerced Drug Treatment Seekers
<p>This study examines the sociodemographics, drug use, criminal, and treatment histories of 598 residential and outpatient legally coerced drug treatment seekers in the Kentucky Treatment Outcome and Performance Pilot Studies Enhancement Project. Analyses examined whether users/addicts entering …
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Care beyond justice: The conflicted ethics of drug treatment courts
… on ethnographic fieldwork at three metropolitan drug treatment courts in the United States. Drug treatment courts are specialized courts within the criminal justice system that offer eligible defendants a chance at treatment instead of incarceration. Unlike previous studies of drug courts, I …
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Analysis of rat brain lipids and metabolites after antidepressant drug treatment
… mechanisms of antidepressant drugs with an emphasis on the relatively unexplored role of sphingolipids. For this purpose, the current study used two antidepressant drugs: the tricyclic antidepressant desipramine, and the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor paroxetine. The …
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Can participation in drug treatment courts reduce emergency department use? An evaluation.
Drug treatment court evaluations often measure criminal recidivism. Further research is required to reflect any additional social benefits that may transpire from participation in this diversion program. To expand drug treatment court evaluations, the relationship between drug abuse and the use of …
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Psychotropic and Antiepileptic Drug Treatment in Programs for the Trainable Mentally Handicapped
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Inflammatory Mechanisms And Vulnerability For Major Depression: From Animal Models To Drug Treatment
… hand, to evaluate the effect of antidepressant treatment on systems that might be relevant for the relationship and mutual modulation of depression and inflammation. Indeed, since depression can be considered a functional disease characterized by an impairment in coping mechanisms, LPS …
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Predictors of Drug Treatment Completion Among Black Women: A Black Feminist Intersectionality Approach
… study used a national sample of substance abuse treatment centers to analyze predictors of drug treatment completion among a sample of black women compared to white women, white men, and black men. Data are drawn from the Treatment Episode Data Set - Discharges (TEDS-D) 2006, which is …
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Recovering from Substance Abuse in Arkansas: The Accessibility and Affordability of Drug Treatment Programs
… is going to examine how people recover from drug addiction and see if there are any similarities due to their socioeconomic statuses at the time of recovery. This research addresses the following questions: How accessible and affordable are drug addiction recovery programs and rehabilitation …
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Behavioural assays of the effects of antidepressant drug treatment on the functioning of catecholamine systems
The effects of antidepressant drugs on central beta-adrenergic and dopaminergic receptor function were investigated using the anorexic effects of low doses of amphetamine and apomorphine as assays of beta-adrenergic function and presynaptic dopamine function respectively. Anorexia was typically …
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Transcriptional regulation of glycosyltransferase genes in MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line following drug treatment
… genes in breast cancer cell line following the treatment with a large set of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs. This is based on the understanding that aberrant glycosylation in breast cancer tumours stem from altered GT gene expression. A major goal of genomic research is the …
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Effects of 5-fluorouracil Drug Treatment on the Expression Profile of MicroRNAs in MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells
… (5-FU) is a classic chemotherapeutic drug that has been widely used in the treatment of breast cancer patients. In this study, using several biochemical techniques, we studied the global effects of 5-FU treatment on MCF7 breast cancer cells. The dose-response curve obtained after the …
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Access to alcohol and drug treatment for people from historically disadvantaged communities in the Cape Town metropole
… factors associated with access to alcohol and drug treatment for people from historically disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa. The Behavioural Model of Health Services Utilisation was used as a conceptual framework for variable selection, data analysis and the interpretation of …
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The impact of the endorsing channel upon physicians' decisions to adopt clustered and unclustered drug treatment innovations.
… that a physician will choose to adopt a drug treatment innovation. An Endorsing Channel Influence Scale is reported for people interested in predicting whether an endorsing channel is likely to result in a decision to prescribe a given drug treatment innovation. The minimally sufficient …
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The Use of The Match-to-Sample Paradigm to Study Stimulant Drug Treatment Effects on Attentional Processes in Hyperactive Children
… of methylphenidate, failed to obtain significant drug effects. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)
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