Heroin maintenance for chronic heroin-dependent individuals

Heroin maintenance for chronic heroin-dependent individuals.

BACKGROUND Several types of medications have been used for stabilizing heroin users: Methadone, Buprenorphine and levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol (LAAM.) The present review focuses on the prescription of heroin to heroin-dependent individuals. OBJECTIVES To compare heroin maintenance to methadone or other substitution treatments for opioid dependence regarding: efficacy and acceptability, retainin...

Heroin Maintenance

Abnormal cortical thickness in heroin-dependent individuals

Accumulating evidence from brain structural imaging studies on heroin dependence has supported links between brain morphological alterations and heroin exposure, particularly in gray matter volume or gray matter density. However, the effects of heroin exposure on cortical thickness and the relationship between cortical thickness and heroin addiction are not yet known. In this study, we acquired...

The Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy on Psychological Distress, Functional Disability, and Death Anxiety in Heroin-Dependent Individuals

Objective: This present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of hypnotherapy on psychological distress, functional disability, and death anxiety in heroin-dependent individuals. Method: The study was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the current research included all heroin users referring to an addiction treatmen...

Distinct resting-state brain activities in heroin-dependent individuals.

Previous functional imaging studies on heroin addicts have focused on abnormal brain functions based on specific tasks, while few fMRI studies concentrated on the resting-state abnormalities of heroin-dependent individuals. In the current study, we applied the pattern classification technique, which employs the feature extraction method of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and a support v...