Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
...g this same period. Binge drug taking and frequent heroin or cocaine injection were associated with syringe sharing, whereas younger age and use of safer injection facility reduced the incidence of syringe sharing. The investigators found that rates of syringe sharing were similar in the study group before ...Study examines consequences of Thailand's 'war on drugs'
...ection drug users surveyed said they stopped using heroin after the campaign began. However, nearly a third of those who quit heroin said they switched to using methamphetamine and other drugs. The researchers also found the war on d...New research shows heroin use falling across Scotland
...Glasgow reveals that the number of people misusing heroin in Scotland has dropped. The research shows a near...ts who are taking particularly damaging drugs like heroin and valium. It also highlights a decrease nationally in the numbers of addicts who are injecting, b...Detoxification in nation's jails falls short
... programs, are arrested annually in the U.S. Among heroin addicts not on methadone, the number may exceed 250,000 arrests per year. The New York State Academy of Family Practice funded the research....Minority teens' views of drug use differ from reality
...he use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, heroin and inhalants. Interestingly, in Miller-Day's study, it is the Black students' sense of ethnic identity as "Being Blacks" that provides an important incentive in causing them to stay off alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Her findings showed that yo...Employment reduces chronic drug use, UH professors find
...hird reported being chronic drug users of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines, using an average of 14 times a week. At intake, five percent of these individuals reported being employed. Employment rates and hours during this first year were measured by interviewing participants quarterly, with employment...Smoking affects same 'feel good' brain chemical system as heroin
...reward. It's the same system that is stimulated by heroin and morphine. The research team, from the U-M Med.... "Just as with the 'hard' drugs of abuse, such as heroin and cocaine, the phenomena of pleasure, addiction, increased tolerance and craving from tobacco are ...Call for randomised criminal-justice trials
...as not been demonstrated to reduce inmates' use of heroin but had cost over UK100 million when the UK's home affairs select committee called for its review in 2000." Professor Bird adds: "Failure to randomise from the outset, or after pilot studies, means that, more than 100 million and 21 000 drug treatmen...Naltrexone injections for alcohol dependence: once-a-month treatment helps maintain sobriety
...opamine. Originally marketed for the treatment of heroin addiction, researchers discovered the medication could also block alcohol craving and reduce alcohol consumption, leading to less relapse drinking and more abstinent days. Although it is well tolerated and does not produce many adverse effects, nalt...Study finds combination therapy successful for treating depression
...d in follow-up interviews designed to assess their heroin use and severity of depression. Forty-three percen...depression status was associated with frequency of heroin use. Participants in remission at 3 months reported fewer than 8 days of heroin use during that time...Long-lasting medication shows promise for treatment of heroin addiction
...tered the buprenorphine injection to five addicted heroin users. During 4 weeks of residential treatment and...ntists assessed patients for signs and symptoms of heroin withdrawal. The patients also received weekly injections of the opioid hydromorphone Dilaudid to tes...Buprenorphine may help those addicted to heroin and cocaine
...piate addiction, may significantly reduce abuse of heroin and cocaine in people addicted to both drugs. In t...uid buprenorphine in 200 men and women addicted to heroin and cocaine. The researchers found that the highest dose of buprenorphine--16 mg daily--was well tol...Black tar heroin use explains lower HIV levels among injection drug users in the Western US
UCSF researchers have found that use of black tar heroin by injection drug users in West Coast cities accou...d on comparison to East Coast cities, where powder heroin is commonly used. "In the early 1990s, about 40 percent of IDUs in New York City were HIV-infected, ...Medically supervised injecting centres should be piloted in the UK
...'s support of a different initiative prescribable heroin centres in preference to injecting centres should...ce they are largely appropriate only for long term heroin addicts. Medically supervised injecting centres are targeted instead at homeless and socially exclu...One-shot addiction treatment shows promise
...ticipants were five volunteer physically dependent heroin abusers. In a residential laboratory setting the heroin abusers each had their narcotics abruptly stopped and was instead given a depot injection of 58 mg o...Study suggests driving restrictions are not necessary for users of methadone, buprenorphine and LAAM
...rols and clients stabilized on pharmacotherapy for heroin dependence. Michael Lenne, Greg Rumbold, Jenny Redman, and Tom J Triggs from Monash University, Victoria, Australia and Paul Dietze from Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc, Victoria, Australia and the School of Health Sciences, Deakin Unive...Combining medication, family counseling improves treatment outcome for men who abuse heroin
...amily treatment leads to improved outcomes in male heroin abusers. A key to the success was family support of the heroin abusers' use of naltrexone, which, while it blocks the "high" associated with heroin use, is prescri...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, October 7, 2003
...patients: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, Haitians, and heroin addicts. But in the recent SARS epidemic, health care professionals stepped up to the plate, and many died. The response to SARS (with quick identification of cause and fairly successful containment) was a test run for a future major influenza or oth...UB begins groundbreaking study on 'net effect' on patients of HIV treatments, other drugs
.... -- An antiretroviral drug for HIV, methadone for heroin addiction, a birth control pill and an antidepressant. For some AIDS patients, this is a daily medication regimen. Others take drugs to treat diabetes, opportunistic infections and side effects of antiretrovirals, while still others abuse alcohol, c......on than it does to treat someone with a cocaine or heroin problem. This time factor is also one reason why s...itive to treat a drug abuse with a medication, but heroin treatments indicate it's possible," Hall said. "Meth abuse alters brain chemistry and functioning, a...