Jacques Mabit, M.D., is Founder and Executive President of the Takiwasi Center for Drug Addict Rehabilitation and Research on Traditional Medicines in Tarapoto, San Martin, Peru. He is Eminent Professor responsible for Traditional Medicine Studies at the Universidad Cientifica del Sur in Lima, Peru, and distinguished as Honorary Member of the Peruvian Psychology Association. He was selected as ...

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Here we discuss the common attitudes toward illegal drug use, showing how they are based to a large extent on inadequate information, poor arguments, and extraordinary examples—the chronic heroin user with his destroyed veins, the suicidal barbiturate addict with gangrened limbs. We go on to explain the social and psychological functions of these attitudes and show that they maintain themselves...

A 34 yr old heroin addict was referred because of chest pain caused by air-trapping in a bulla in the left lower lobe. There was a marked difference between the functional residual capacity measured by body-plethysmography and helium dilution. A slow wash-in and wash-out were demonstrated by ventilation scintigraphy with Xenon133. Bullous degeneration is a known complication of intravenous drug...

Palliative care with terminally ill drug addicts is a major challenge for medical professionals to face. With growing problems of prescription drug abuse in this country, the problem is only going to continue to grow and be faced more often. To date, very little has been done focusing on this special population of end-of-life care patients. This review article attempts to explore the terminolog...

BACKGROUND Exteroception involves processes related to the perception of environmental stimuli important for an organism's ability to adapt to its environment. As such, exteroception plays a critical role in conditioned response. In addiction, behavioral and neuroimaging studies show that the conditioned response to drug-related cues is often associated with alterations in brain regions includi...

Drug addiction in the U.S.A., in comparison with this country, remains a major ^ealth problem. Various theories have been postulated over the years to explain this difference, and Dr. Schur, in his book, has endeavoured to compare and contrast the tfect which varying administrative measures have had on the fate of the drug addict. puring a two-year research period in the U.K., he made a thoroug...