Cocaine/Crack
Growth of Infants Prenatally Exposed to Cocaine/Crack: Comparison of a Prenatal Care and a No Prenatal Care Sample
... were cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other drug use; infant gender and GA; maternal race, height, age, education, marital status, gravidity, weight gain during pregnancy, adequacy of PC (for the PC ...
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Effects of Prenatal Cocaine/Crack and Other Drug Exposure on Electroencephalographic Sleep Studies at Birth and One Year
... were cocaine/crack users during the first trimester did not differ from infants of women who were not first trimester users on gestational age, birth weight, length, head circumference, percent low birth ...
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Analysis of Cocaine and Crack Cocaine via Thin Layer Chromatography Coupled to Easy Ambient Sonic Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
... of cocaine and crack co- caine, we first evaluated the TLC performance using two different eluents and standards solutions, as well as seized drug samples (Figure 5), three of cocaine (coc 1, coc 3 ...
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Public crack cocaine smoking and willingness to use a supervised inhalation facility: implications for street disorder
... daily crack cocaine smoking was sig- nificantly more common than daily injecting, suggesting that despite the requirement of a history of injecting, our sample represents a primarily crack ...
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Crack Cocaine-Induced Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities Are Reversed by Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion
... Figure 1: The electrocardiogram (ECG) observed in a 19-year-old man that ingested large amount of crack cocaine (±40 grams) in a suicide attempt. The ECG showed sinus tachycardia with significant widening ...
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Public opinions about supervised smoking facilities for crack cocaine and other stimulants
... Across North America and Europe, smoking of stimu- lants such as crack cocaine is prevalent and associated with many negative health and social effects [17–21]. Re- ports suggest that the sharing of smoking ...
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EARNING A SCORE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE NATURE AND ROLES OF HEROIN AND CRACK COCAINE 'USER-DEALERS'
... and crack cocaine users to rely more upon theft and minor property crime as a way to raise funds to support their drug ...to crack cocaine (Maher, 1996; Briggs, ...
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Education and equipment for people who smoke crack cocaine in Canada: progress and limits
... smoke crack cocaine has lagged behind programming developed for people who inject ...smoke crack cocaine often exhibit pro- nounced marginalization characterized by, for example, poverty, ...
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Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
... Safer Crack Use Coalition of Vancouver (SCUC), a group com- prised of community outreach workers, women and men who used crack cocaine, and health care providers, as well as the SCORE's Women's ...
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Alterations in corneal nerves following crack cocaine use mimic diabetes-induced nerve damage
... 60 crack cocaine addicts and demonstrated significant retinopathy and retinal nerve fiber changes ...to cocaine exposure in neonatal rats demonstrated that the number of axons was not altered ...in ...
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Gender differences in patterns of drug use and sexual risky behaviour among crack cocaine users in Central Brazil
... daily crack consumption, smoking a mix- ture of crack and tobacco, smoking a mixture of crack and marijuana, marijuana use, and intranasal use of ...daily crack consumption ( p < ...
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Cocaine Addiction Treatments to improve Control and reduce Harm (CATCH): New Pharmacological Treatment Options for Crack Cocaine Dependence in the Netherlands
... ’ crack ’ ), has become one of the drugs of most concern in many countries, being associated with a wide range of medical, psychiatric and social problems for the individual, and with significant public order ...
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Cytopathological Changes in Oral Epithelium Induced by Crack Cocaine Smoking
... Crack cocaine, a form of cocaine base, is derived from powder ...when crack cocaine is ...of crack cocaine ...(32 crack users and 20 ...for crack users, ...
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Potential community and public health impacts of medically supervised safer smoking facilities for crack cocaine users
... among crack cocaine smokers and have been shown to facilitate HCV transmission, as well as increased potential risk for HIV transmission, through the sharing of contam- inated equipment, such as ...
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Esophagitis, Epiglottitis, and Cocaine Alkaloid ("Crack"): "Accidental" Poisoning or Child Abuse?
... Free-base or alkaloid cocaine is obtained by con- version and extraction of cocaine hydrochloric acid by means of kits readily available from drug para- phernalia shops. Crack is prepare[r] ...
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Incidence of Passive Exposure to Crack/Cocaine and Clinical Findings in Infants Seen in an Outpatient Service
... infant cocaine exposure and the lack of significant numbers of positive maternal drug histo- ries in the mothers of those patients who are positive for ...active cocaine users, potentially exposing their ...
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Crack cocaine users views regarding treatment with contingency management in Brazil
... seen through the lack of evidence of efficacy in public out- patient treatment services for this population [25]. Recent evidence of the efficacy of CM in treating crack cocaine de- pendence in the city of ...
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Emotions, ethnography and crack cocaine users
... studying crack cocaine users and the ethical, methodological and emotional consequences which emerged for both the researched (Katz 1999) and researcher (Hochschild 1983, Roberts ...
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Men’s and women’s response to treatment and perceptions of outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of injectable opioid assisted treatment for severe opioid use disorder
... A separate model was fitted for each outcome, as dependent variables, for the differences between women and men. At six-months, there were a high proportion of participants reporting zero days in reference to prior 30 ...
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The Role of Race and Class in Local Media Coverage of Utah's Opioid Epidemic
... of crack frequently associated it with violence, using phrases like “crack wars” and “rampant” drug use to describe gang violence and ...about crack made mentions of violence, only one fifth of ...
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