Epidemiology, clinical data, and treatment of viral hepatitis in a large cohort of intravenous drug users.

abstract：:Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is treated with peg-interferon α2a or α2b and ribavirin. International studies show that drug user adherence to treatment is 40% to 60% and increases if the patient is in addiction treatment. The aim of the Together To Take Care (TTTC) study was to achieve better adherence to HCV ther...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Curcio F,Di Martino F,Capraro C,Angelucci F,Bulla F,Caprio N,Cascone A,D'ascoli G,Focaccio F,Gaveglia M,Longobardo A,Martini S,Masucci S,Morra A,Pasquale G,Pisapia R,Plenzik M,Veneruso C,Villano G,Russo M,De Rosa

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Opiates drug users are at much higher risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) infection than general population. We conducted this study to determine the susceptibility for pulmonary and latent TB infection in opiates drug users. METHODS:In this cross-sectional study, all opiates drug users referred to drop-in...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Honarvar B,Lankarani KB,Odoomi N,Roudgari A,Moghadami M,Kazerooni PA,Abadi AH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug; a substantial minority of users develop dependence. The current lack of pharmacological treatments for cannabis dependence warrants the use of novel approaches and further investigation of promising pharmacotherapy. In this case series, we assessed the use of ...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Trigo JM,Soliman A,Staios G,Quilty L,Fischer B,George TP,Rehm J,Selby P,Barnes AJ,Huestis MA,Le Foll B

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) has demonstrated efficacy for addressing unhealthy alcohol use in primary care, yet recent research indicates weaker efficacy for drug use as well as very limited success in referral to specialty care for patients with substance use disorder (S...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Tetrault JM,Holt SR,Cavallo DA,O'Connor PG,Gordon MA,Corvino JK,Nich C,Carroll KM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening for prenatal drug use is recommended. The NIDA-modified Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (NM-ASSIST) is a screener for drug use that has not yet been validated with pregnant women. This study aims to assess the substance-specific diagnostic validity of the NM-ASSIST (not i...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Oga EA,Mark K,Peters EN,Coleman-Cowger VH

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid dependent pregnant and post-partum women and their infants are a complex and vulnerable population requiring individualized, comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment. Though methadone maintenance in the setting of comprehensive service provision during pregnancy significantly improves pregnancy outcomes fo...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Velez M,Jansson LM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed sex differences in a sample of first-admission psychiatric inpatients with and without comorbid substance use disorder (SUD) to identify possible risk factors and targets for sex-tailored treatment interventions. METHODS:A retrospective study of first admissions to the University Psychiatry Ward...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Gramaglia C,Bert F,Lombardi A,Feggi A,Porro M,Siliquini R,Gualano MR,Torre E,Zeppegno P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cocaine is a known risk factor for several vascular ischemic events. The underlying mechanisms leading to the complications are not fully understood, although thrombus formation and accelerated atherosclerosis are prominent findings. Evidence of endothelial dysfunction (ED), a key phenomenon in the pathogene...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Massardo T,Quintana JC,Jaimovich R,Sáez CG,Cabreras MJ,Pereira-Flores K,Ibáñez C,Pallavicini J,Véliz J,Mezzano D,Pereira J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:: With the growing public interest in the potential therapeutic benefits of cannabis and cannabinoids in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD), some states have now either added or proposed to add OUD as an indication for their state's medical marijuana program. However, these initiatives are based on weak eviden...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Suzuki J,Weiss RD

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Individuals with substance use disorders have a high prevalence of smoking cigarettes. Hospitalization represents an opportunity to deliver concurrent treatment for tobacco and other substances. Using a sequential explanatory mixed methods design, we characterized practices and perspectives of patients and ph...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Kathuria H,Seibert RG,Cobb V,Weinstein ZM,Gowarty M,Helm ED,Wiener RS

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There are case reports of abuse of quetiapine, but no studies address quetiapine abuse or misuse. Most literature on the population that abuses quetiapine describes an older age group with previous substance abuse history, many of whom are in jail. The objective of this study was to evaluate national poison c...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Klein-Schwartz W,Schwartz EK,Anderson BD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cocaine abuse is widespread in Europe, and Ireland ranks among the leading countries for prevalence of cocaine use among adolescents. This study aimed to examine demographic and substance use correlates of lifetime cocaine use among adolescents with substance use disorder, and to explore the relationship bet...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Apantaku-Olajide T,Darker CD,Smyth BP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In 2017, an academic health center in Chicago launched the multidisciplinary Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT) to address opioid misuse across 18 inpatient units and in a new outpatient addiction medicine clinic. This report assesses the first 5 months of implementation and associations with patient heal...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Thompson HM,Hill K,Jadhav R,Webb TA,Pollack M,Karnik N

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Drop In Centers (DICs) are organizations in which health and social services are delivered to drug users on the basis of harm-reduction strategies. The aim of this epidemiological study was to estimate the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection at these centers...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Salehi A,Naghshvarian M,Marzban M,Bagheri Lankarani K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Individuals in the criminal justice system engage in behaviors that put them at high risk for HIV. This study sought to identify characteristics of individuals who are under community corrections supervision (eg, probation) and at risk for HIV. METHODS:Approximately 25,000 individuals under community correct...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Clark CB,McCullumsmith CB,Waesche MC,Islam MA,Francis R,Cropsey KL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of cannabis on clinical outcomes of treatment services for other drug use disorders remains unclear. The primary aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of recent cannabis consumption on the severity of cocaine withdrawal and depressive symptoms during a 3-week inpatient treatment...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Viola TW,Sanvicente-Vieira B,Kluwe-Schiavon B,Rothmann LM,Mélo-Pereira JVNE,Bicca C,Ottolia Niederauer JP,Schmitz J,Grassi-Oliveira R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:: Approximately 21 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder (SUD); the number of family members impacted by a loved one's SUD is exponentially greater. Affected family members of individuals with SUDs are at high risk for developing chronic medical and psychiatric health conditions, are high u...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Ventura AS,Bagley SM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with psychiatric disease, substance abuse, and/or housing instability have a high prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. However, such individuals are often excluded from treatment for HCV infection because of a perceived inability to adhere to the rigorous medication regimen re...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Ho CJ,Preston C,Fredericks K,Doorley SL,Kramer RJ,Kwan L,Kamal A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Among people living with HIV (PLWH), high levels of adherence to prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART) is required to achieve optimal treatment outcomes. However, little is known about the effects of daily pill burden on adherence amongst PLWH who use drugs. We sought to investigate the association between...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Mohd Salleh NA,Richardson L,Kerr T,Shoveller J,Montaner J,Kamarulzaman A,Milloy MJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Provision of smoking-cessation treatment is limited in office-based buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT) settings. This study describes smoking and smoking-cessation behaviors among patients receiving office-based BMT. METHODS:Cross-sectional study of patients receiving office-based BMT at a community ...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Shah PA,Cunningham CO,Brisbane MT,DeLuca JP,Nahvi S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary reviews the limitations of the recent literature review by that examined the role of psychosocial interventions with medication for opioid addiction treatment. The commonly held belief that opioid agonist treatment alone is inferior treatment to such treatment combined with 'psychosocial' treatment (wh...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Schwartz RP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:If employee drug use plays a significant part in the incidence of workplace accidents, one would anticipate the positivity rates of postaccident drug tests to be higher than the positivity rates for random tests. Past studies examined the difference of a dichotomous outcome between 2 groups. Dichotomous (p...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Price JW

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Buprenorphine/naloxone has been shown to be an effective treatment of opioid use disorder. According to the Canadian National clinical practice guideline on the management of opioid use disorders, given the superior safety profile of buprenorphine/naloxone and its potential for flexible take-home dosing in c...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Hamata B,Griesdale D,Hann J,Rezazadeh-Azar P

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Narcotics Anonymous (NA), a nonprofessional 12-step fellowship for people seeking recovery from addiction, reports 27,677 meetings in the USA, where it was founded, but there is limited literature on its adaptability cross-culturally. We studied NA within the Islamic Republic of Iran to ascertain its relative...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Galanter M,White WL,Hunter BD

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, as a function of primary substance of abuse, among clients approached, screened, and assessed for eligibility in a 10-site effectiveness trial of a Web-based psychosocial intervention for substance use disorders. Consistent with the design of ...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Campbell AN,Nunes EV,McClure EA,Hu MC,Turrigiano E,Goldman B,Stabile PQ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of this study was to determine whether improved access to medication assisted therapy in the general population, with improved coordination of ancillary services for pregnant women, improved perinatal outcomes in a nonurban area. METHODS:The cohort of women treated for opioid dependence during preg...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Meyer M,Benvenuto A,Howard D,Johnston A,Plante D,Metayer J,Mandell T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Examine energy drink/shot and regular and diet soft drink use among United States secondary school students in 2010-2011, and associations between such use and substance use. METHODS:We used self-reported data from cross-sectional surveys of nationally representative samples of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade s...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Terry-McElrath YM,OʼMalley PM,Johnston LD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The health burden of cannabis use in patients with other substance dependencies is not fully understood. OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of cannabis use as secondary drug on mortality of patients with other major substance use disorders. PARTICIPANTS:Patients with opiate, cocaine, or alcohol dependence admi...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Fuster D,Sanvisens A,Bolao F,Zuluaga P,Rivas I,Farré M,Tor J,Muga R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Effective and safe pain management interventions in methadone maintenance treatment are needed. METHODS:We examined the feasibility (ie, single-session attendance) and acceptability (ie, patient satisfaction and booster session attendance) of cognitive-behavioral therapy-informed groups for pain management-...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Barry DT,Savant JD,Beitel M,Cutter CJ,Schottenfeld RS,Kerns RD,Moore BA,Oberleitner L,Joy MT,Keneally N,Liong C,Carroll KM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:: This study was designed to conduct a needs assessment concerning methadone counselors' experiences working with methadone-maintained patients with chronic pain and measure counselors' interest in receiving specialized training to treat such patients. METHODS:: A survey, developed by the authors, was administ...

journal_title：Journal of addiction medicine

authors： Barry DT,Bernard MJ,Beitel M,Moore BA,Kerns RD,Schottenfeld RS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00