A Seizure Attributed to Ofloxacine in a Woman Undergoing Detoxification for Alcohol Dependence by Pierre Lahmek, Laurent Michel, Nadine Meunier, Henri-Jean Aubin

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Personal Construction of Cough Medicine among Young Substance Abusers in Hong Kong by Daniel T. L. Shek

“…Second, although the informants perceived cough medicine to be addictive and harmful, they perceived cough medicine to be less addictive and less harmful than did heroin. …”
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Clinician’s perceptions and experiences with tobacco treatment in people who use cannabis: a qualitative study by Cristina Martínez, Marga Pla, Ariadna Feliu, Marta Enríquez, Judith Saura, Carmen Cabezas, Joan Colom, Josep M. Suelves, Sílvia Mondon, Pablo Barrio, Magalí Andreu, Antònia Raich, Jordi Bernabeu, Xavier Roca, Maite Narváez, Esteve Fernández, Group of clinicians of the ACT_ATAC study

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Impact of Impulse Control Disorders on Sleep-Wake Regulation in Parkinson’s Disease by Atbin Djamshidian, Werner Poewe, Birgit Högl

“…Sleep disturbances are common in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and are even more prevalent in patients with behavioural addictions, such as pathological gambling, compulsive sexual behaviour, compulsive buying, binge eating, punding, and the compulsive use of dopamine replacement therapy. …”
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A missing link: The interdependence between sugar-sweetened beverage and cigarette consumption from China. by Lu Liu, Kevin Chen

“…Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and cigarettes are addictive substances and addictive substances are often related in consumption with each other. …”
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CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network Coinfection and Concurrent Diseases Core: Canadian Guidelines for Management and Treatment of HIV/Hepatitis C Coinfection in Adults by Mark Hull, Marina Klein, Stephen Shafran, Alice Tseng, Pierre Giguère, Pierre Côté, Marc Poliquin, Curtis Cooper, on behalf of The CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network HIV/Hepatitis C Management and Treatment Guidelines Working Group

“…HIV-HCV management is more complex due to the accelerated progression of liver disease, the timing and nature of antiretroviral and HCV therapy, mental health and addictions management, socioeconomic obstacles and drug-drug interactions between new HCV direct-acting antiviral therapies and antiretroviral regimens.…”
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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Risky Sexual Behavior Leading to HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections among Egyptian Substance Abusers: A Cross-Sectional Stud... by Atef Y. Bakhoum, Max O. Bachmann, Ehab El Kharrat, Remon Talaat

“…KAP of safe sexual behavior were low among drug addicts in Egypt increasing potential towards infection with STDs including HIV. …”
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CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network Co-Infection and Concurrent Diseases Core: Updated Canadian Guidelines for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection in HIV-hepatitis C Coinfected Adu... by Mark Hull, Stephen Shafran, Alice Tseng, Pierre Giguère, Marina B Klein, Curtis Cooper

“…Management of HIV-HCV coinfection is more complex due to the accelerated progression of liver disease, the timing and nature of antiretroviral and HCV therapy, mental health and addictions management, socioeconomic obstacles and drug-drug interactions between new HCV direct-acting antiviral therapies and antiretroviral regimens.…”
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Chronic Heroin Dependence Leading to Adrenal Insufficiency by Gautam Das

“…They are commonly abused by drug addicts and such dependence usually imparts severe physiologic effects on multiple organ systems. …”
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Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique by Loïc Wacquant

“…Drugs addicts, the mentally ill, the homeless: the insufficiency and ineptness of social and medical services in the United States ensures that these three categories find themselves behind bars in ever larger numbers over time, as the prison is turned into a dumping ground for the human waste of a society more and more subordinated to the dictates of the market. …”
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Neuromodulatory effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on cue reactivity and craving in young adults with internet gaming disorder: an event-related potential study by Sung Nyun Kim, Jung-Seok Choi, Minkyung Park, So Young Yoo, Areum Choi, Ja Wook Koo, Ja Wook Koo, Ung Gu Kang

“…Based on the present findings, tDCS could be expanded to the treatment of other addictive disorders, including substance use disorder and behavioral addictions.…”
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Promethazine is not a good option to aid sleep quality, especially for people using psychiatric services by Jacob D. King

“…In this Against the Stream article, the case is made that promethazine is not suitable as a sleep aid for people using mental health services, because it has no good evidence base, impedes with psychological and behavioural techniques that do improve sleep in the medium-long term, has underappreciated addictive and recreational-use potential, and an unacceptable side-effect profile. …”
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Why and How the Liberalisation of the Cannabis Market in Germany Should Occur by Justus Haucap, Leon Knoke

“…While consumption of legal addictive substances such as tobacco and alcohol has been successfully curbed, cannabis consumption has been increasing for years despite prohibition. …”
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Model for Predicting Borderline Mental Disorders of Law Enforcement Officers – Participants of Anti-Terrorist Operation by O. V. Zemlianska, P. V. Makarenko

“…This is necessary to minimize the negative psychosocial consequences in the form of pronounced features of borderline mental disorders and addictive behavior with the formation of concomitant addictions to alcohol and drugs. …”
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Primary school health content gaps and school curriculum implications by Prihantini Prihantini, Ai Rukmini, Willius Kogoya, Bernadetha Nadeak, Atep Jejen

“…Furthermore, 58% of students lacked sufficient understanding about nutrition and healthy eating, while 72% did not receive education about the dangers of smoking and addictive substances.These findings underscore the necessity to fortify the health education curriculum in primary schools. …”
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Xylazine as a Drug of Abuse and Its Effects on the Generation of Reactive Species and DNA Damage on Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells by Luz Silva-Torres, Christian Veléz, Lyvia Álvarez, Beatriz Zayas

“…Human xylazine (XYL) abuse among addicts has received great interest due to its potential toxic effects upon addicts and the need to understand the mechanism of action associated with the potential health effects. …”
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No more legend to print. Sur quelques hantises de No Country for Old Men by Lambert Barthélémy

“…This powerful intertextual dynamic makes it possible to weave together ethics, politics and economics in order to give an unvarnished description of the state of anomy reached by an advanced capitalist society, of the ineffectiveness of the ideological narratives that found it, and of disunion as the inescapable correlate of mass consumption and global addictions.…”
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Feasibility and Acceptability of a Smartphone App for Daily Reports of Substance Use and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence among HIV-Infected Adults by Sarahmona M. Przybyla, Rebecca K. Eliseo-Arras, Gabriela Krawiec, Emily Gower, Kurt Dermen

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Patterns of pregabalin prescribing in four German federal states: analysis of routine data to investigate potential misuse of pregabalin by Ronja Flemming

“…Of the patients misusing pregabalin, 365 (42%) had a diagnosed history of substance use disorders and 359 (41%) had been prescribed another drug with addictive potential (opioids) before. The prescribers of those patients potentially misusing pregabalin were more loosely connected within networks compared with prescribers of patients prescribed pregabalin as recommended.Conclusion This study found that patients could exceed recommended doses of pregabalin by getting prescriptions from multiple physicians. …”
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And science created… the virtual Woman by Élisabeth Marion, Yohan Trichet

“…In this article, we will study within a psychoanalytical perspective what this film teaches us about the contemporary issue of new addictions to connected objects. What place, what function do these objects take in the character’s relationship to the body, to drive and to language? …”
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