Glucose tolerance in opiate addicts

Detection of benzodiazepine abuse in opiate addicts.

There is an increasing problem with benzodiazepine co-abuse in the opiate dependent population of Dublin. The importance of early detection of this co-abuse is essential as there is an increased risk of dangerous injecting practices such as sharing of needles and criminality in those who co-abuse benzodiazepines and opiates. This study was carried out in the National Drug Treatment Centre, Dubl...

Subgroups among opiate addicts: a typological investigation.

To delineate homogenous subgroups among hospitalized opiate addicts, a multivariate correlational clustering technique was applied to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of 1,500 addicts, subdivided into 10 subsamples (5 for each sex) representing four different categories of admission into treatment (civilly committed, volunteers, probationers, prisoners). Within each subs...

Opiate Addicts ́ Attitudes Towards Heroin Prescription

Introduction: The competence of opiate addicts to give a valid consent to heroin prescription (HP) has been doubted in principle under the assumption that the pathological urge to use heroin would prevent them from reasonably weighing the pros and cons of HP. This study was done to test whether opiate addicts have a differentiated attitude towards HP which would be a basis for an individual dec...

Comparative study of self-abusive behaviors, emotional distress tolerance and irrational beliefs in among opiate and provocative drugs addicts

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the self-abusive behaviors, emotional distress tolerance and irrational beliefs in among opiate and provocative drugs addicts. Method: In this comparative causative study, the statistical population included all the addicted people who are recovering including 51 opiate drugs addict and 51 provocative drugs addict at Gorgan in 2018 were selected by ...

Opiate addicts in and outside of treatment ; Different populations ?