Heroin addiction in the suburbs--an epidemiologic study.

Heroin addiction and pregnancy.

Pregnant heroin addicts tend to be younger than nonaddicted pregnant patients, unmarried or separated from spouses, and a disproportionately large number are members of minority ethnic groups. Heroin addiction during pregnancy is associated with several significant medical and obstetrical complications and may result in both acute and chronic abnormalities in neonates. Malnutrition, venereal di...

Buprenorphine in The Treatment of Heroin Addiction

Heroin addiction is a significant health and social problem in most countries. A recent estimate is that there were between 15.2-21.1 million people abusing or dependent on opioids. The key determinant of the prevalence of heroin problems in a community appears to be availability. The highest levels of use (in terms of the proportion of the population aged 15-64 years) are found along the main ...

Cutaneous clues to heroin addiction.

Heroin addiction--a metabolic disease.

THE METHADONE Maintenance Research Program began three years ago with pharmacological studies conducted on the metabolic ward of the Rockefeller University Hospital. Only six addict patients were treated during the first year, but the results of this work were sufficiently impressive to justify the trial of maintenance treatment of heroin addicts admitted to open medical wards of general hospit...

Genetic signatures of heroin addiction

Heroin addiction is a complex psychiatric disorder with a chronic course and a high relapse rate, which results from the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Heroin addiction has a substantial heritability in its etiology; hence, identification of individuals with a high genetic propensity to heroin addiction may help prevent the occurrence and relapse of heroin addiction and ...