Decreased tolerance to heroin.

Decreased rat brain acetylcholine utilization after heroin and cross tolerance to l-methadone.

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Cutaneous clues to heroin addiction.

Components of Decreased Sound Tolerance : Hyperacusis, Misophonia, Phonophobia

This report is an attempt to bring to your attention some important information related to decreased sound tolerance and it is based on a short paper (Jastreboff, MM and Jastreboff PJ, Hyperacusis, Audiology Online, June 2001, http://www.audiologyonline.com). In particular, as we recently proposed a new term “misophonia” and we would like to provide some explanation and justification for it (Ja...

Prescribing naloxone to actively injecting heroin users: a program to reduce heroin overdose deaths.

Heroin overdose deaths have increased alarmingly in Chicago over the past decade. Naloxone, an opioid antagonist with no abuse potential, has been used to reverse opiate overdose in emergency medical settings for decades. We describe here a program to educate opiate users in the prevention of opiate overdose and its reversal with intramuscular naloxone. Participant education and naloxone prescr...

Treatments for Decreased Sound Tolerance (Hyperacusis and Misophonia)

Decreased sound tolerance (DST) is an underappreciated condition that affects the lives of a significant portion of the general population. There is lack of agreement regarding definitions, specific components, prevalence, methods of evaluation, and methods of treatment. Limited data are available on the results of treatments. Research is scant and constrained by the lack of an animal model. Th...