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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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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Changing the High-Risk Behaviors of Injecting Drug Users in Iran: Application Theory of Planned Behavior by Ali Khani Jeihooni, Fatemeh Mohammadkhah, Mostafa Bijani, Pooyan Afzali Harsini

“…This study is an experimental research on 120 drug addicts in 2021-2022. Two addiction harm reduction centers in Fasa City, Iran, were chosen randomly (one as the test group and the other as the control group). …”
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"I'm Not Like Most of You Here, I'm Just an Alcoholic": A Russian Baptist Theory of Addiction by Igor Mikeshin

“…In my paper I discuss alcoholics in the Russian Baptist rehabilitation ministry by comparing them to drug addicts. In the outside world, as well as in the early stages of the rehabilitation program, alcoholics and illicit drug abusers are perceived as different cultural groups. …”
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L’agentivité des femmes morphinomanes au xixe siècle by Zoë Dubus

“…In order to go beyond this admittedly important but particularly restrictive diptych, we will attempt in this study to apply the notion of the capacity to act to female morphine addicts of the 19th century, who constitute the first “type” category of drug addicts in contemporary history.…”
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Segregação socioambiental: estudo de caso no bairro colôniaventura/Tefé-AM a partir de uma perspectiva geográfica by Antonio Jucivan Martins Bruce, Eubia Andréa Rodrigues

“…It is within this circumstance that Tefé emerges as a town that has standardized itself and was built with these attributions, as a fragmented, articulated and unequal space (CORRÊA, 1995) which has promoted a dispute of socio-environmental segregation, this being identified in the Neighborhood of Cologne Ventura, in view of its residents suffer from discriminatory labels (gang member, potheads, drug addicts, thieves, etc.) from outside residents. …”
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Community Development in the Rural Areas through Traditional Indigenous Knowledge by Godfrey, Barigye, Siraje, Kaaya

“…Also, the rural area is seen as the place where the elderly, disabled, victims of war, unemployed, drug addicts and those with poor political governance reside. …”
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Liver cirrhosis epidemiology in Chelyabinsk region in 2006-2015 by A. I. Dolgushina, Ye. R. Olevskaya, A. N. Tarasov, M. S. Kazakova, A. Yu. Markina

“…However objectively restrictions in utilization of the available range of treatment-and-prophylactic actions for treatment of LC in the outcome of viral hepatitis (in drug addicts, alcoholic or asocial patients) due to their low treatment compliance.…”
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The Study of Mono- and Polysubstance Abuse Effects on Complete Blood Count Parameters in Samples of Iraqi Patients by Athmar Kadhim Gatea, Kareem Nasir Hussien, Mohammed Ali Al-Jabory

“…This finding is correlated with different studies worldwide increasing the need for attention payment in the follow-up and management of drug addicts.…”
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Analgesic Efficacy of Transversus Abdominis Plane block vs Local Infiltration of Lignocaine and Bupivacaine in Post-operative Patients by Shabbir Ahmad, Muhammad Kareemullah, Saeed Mahmood, Muhammad Azhar Alam, Qasim Farooq, Muhammad Rashid

“…It involved a total of 110 patients, divided into two groups of 55 each, between the ages of 20 to 60 years, diagnosed with indirect inguinal hernia by ultrasound. Chronic smokers, drug addicts, intravenous drug abusers, patients with a history of previous surgeries, with known drug allergies and with complicated hernia were excluded from this cross-sectional study.  …”
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The complex relationships among self-acceptance, perceived social support, drug use stereotype threat, and subthreshold depression in people with substance use disorder: exploring... by Yongqiu Li, Rufang Wang, Jun Liu, Zuoliang Li, Yinghua Zhou

“…This study aimed to explore the effects of self-acceptance, perceived social support, and stereotype threat of people with SUD on their subthreshold depression, as well as potential mediating and buffering effects.MethodsThis study was conducted from January-March 2024. 1068 drug addicts (548 males and 520 females) were recruited in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. …”
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