Opium the Best Remedy by Harold Merskey

“…As can be seen from his text, they were about whether the drug was available in adequate preparations, whether there was any difference between opium and other narcotics, particularly comparing the natural juice with "its artificial preparations" (1) (all of which he thought to be about equal in effect), whether it was stimulant or restorative and invigorating, and whether it was being properly used for all the conditions in which it could be helpful. …”
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Cognitive Impairment in Opium Use Disorder by Hossein Sanjari Moghaddam, Behrang Shadloo, Helen Shahkhah, Abbas Tafakhori, Maryam Haghshomar, Shakila Meshkat, Vajiheh Aghamollaii

“…This cross-sectional study is aimed at assessing the effects of opium use disorder (OUD) on attention, working memory, and information-processing speed. …”
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Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, and Other Writings by Céline Lochot

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Sensitivity of Self-reported Opium Use in Cancer Patients: Implications for conducting epidemiological studies by Vahideh Mohseni, Maryam Hadji, Mina Khaki, Omid Nabavian, Kazem Zendehdel, Hamideh Rashidian

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Opium use during pregnancy and risk of preterm delivery: A population-based cohort study. by Siavash Maghsoudlou, Sven Cnattingius, Scott Montgomery, Mohsen Aarabi, Shahriar Semnani, Anna-Karin Wikström, Shahram Bahmanyar

“…This study shows compared with non-use of opium and tobacco, use of only opium during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of preterm delivery (OR = 1.56; 95% CI 1.05-2.32), and the risk was more than two-fold increased among dual users of opium and tobacco (OR = 2.31; 95% CI 1.37-3.90). …”
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Associations of Opium Use with Metabolic Syndrome in Fasa PERSIAN Cohort Study: A Population-Based Study by Rafat Shadmehr, Mehdi Sharafi, Mohammadhossien Shahabzadeh, Mostafa Bijani, Rahim Sharafkhani, Babak Pezeshki, Abdolmajid Ghasemian, Azizallah Dehghan

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Examining the Frequency of Clinical and Paraclinical Symptoms in Opium Addicts Hospitalized Due to Lead Poisoning in Isfahan Province by Hamid Kalantari, Farzad Gheshlaghi, Marzieh Etezadi

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Modification of Gene Expression Involved in Alkaloid Production in Opium Poppy by VIGS Combined With Pretreatment of Macerozyme Enzyme by Deniz Ece Özcan, Deniz Köm, Ozan Doğan, Semiha Erişen, Selma Onarici

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A survey on the Epidemiology of Acute Poisoning in Adults Referring to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardabil during 2017-2020 by Roksana Farabi, Aylin Javan-Molaei, Esmaeil Farzaneh, Saeid Sadeghieh Ahari, Sara Mostafalou

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Exploring the relationship between opium consumption and lipid profiles: A population-based study of 10,663 individuals in Southern Iran by Najibullah Baeradeh, Seyed Vahid Hosseini, Leila Moftakhar, Fatemeh Jafari, Masoumeh Ghoddusi Johari, Abbas Rezaianzadeh

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L’échec mondial de la lutte antidrogue : quelles leçonspour l’Afghanistan ? by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

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Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic fatigue: the importance of communication and symptom management—a case report by Johannes Haedrich, Roman Huber

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Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay. L’Autobiographie de Thomas De Quincey. Confessions d’un mangeur d’opium anglais (1821 et 1856), Suspiria de Profundis (1845), Esquisses autobiographiques (1853) by Alain Jumeau

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Uluslararası Afyon Anlaşmalarında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu by Burak Çıtır

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Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns: What we know about the cannabis and the Hashish trade in Afghanistan by James Bradford, David Mansfield

“…In the past four decades, much of the contemporary narrative of Afghanistan has been defined by opium. However, underneath the veil of the opium economy, the cannabis trade remains an enduring component of Afghanistan’s political economy and culture. …”
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The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…While the Italian writers’ approach was metafictional and parodic, à la Lodge, Pearl’s approach is thematic and biographical, and highly sensational. The central theme is opium and drug addiction—a contemporary obsession: it is an interesting coincidence that an essay by Robert Tracy focusing on this aspect (‘Opium Is the True Hero of the Tale’) was published in the same year as The Last Dickens. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…Yet it also forms a vital undercurrent in Dickens’s Little Dorrit, a novel that fascinatingly brings in references to colonial guilt produced by the opium trade in China and the second opium war, which was waging when the novel was still being serialised, the Crimean War, and the Risorgimento. …”
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Clinical manifestation and laboratory data of illicit drugs versus other substances intoxication in children by Leila Barati, Mohammadali Vakili, Omid Mehrpour, Mehrdad Teimoorian

“…There were 87 cases (45.3%) of illicit drug poisoning, which included methadone 43.8%, opium 41.4%, amphetamine 8.2%, cannabis 3.3%, buprenorphine 2.2%, and tramadol 1.1%. …”
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An Emerging New Paradigm in Opioid Withdrawal: A Critical Role for Glia-Neuron Signaling in the Periaqueductal Gray by Handong Ouyang, Shue Liu, Weian Zeng, Roy C. Levitt, Keith A. Candiotti, Shuanglin Hao

“…., narcotics such as the natural derivatives of opium including morphine or codeine) or opioids (i.e., semisynthetic derivatives of opium and other molecules that activate opioid receptors) induces dependence, which is associated with various specific behavioral and somatic signs after their withdrawal or after the administration of an opioid antagonist. …”
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Vitesse, réseau, vision : La malle poste-anglaise de Thomas de Quincey by Jean-Christophe Valtat

“…Usually linked to Opium, the visionary romantic aesthetic of Thomas De Quincey, can also be refered to the technological mutations of the emerging industrial modernity. …”
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