Crack Cocaine
Cocaine Addiction Treatments to improve Control and reduce Harm (CATCH): New Pharmacological Treatment Options for Crack Cocaine Dependence in the Netherlands
... of cocaine dependent patients in The ...in crack-cocaine dependent patients the response to each of these three medications, as an add-on to psychosocial treatment with cognitive behavioural therapy ...
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EARNING A SCORE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE NATURE AND ROLES OF HEROIN AND CRACK COCAINE 'USER-DEALERS'
... As the data illustrates, the potential profits available to heroin and crack cocaine sellers are considerable, with sellers widely noting the ability to ‘double your money’. For the respondents, the ...
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Public crack cocaine smoking and willingness to use a supervised inhalation facility: implications for street disorder
... in crack cocaine smoking and the public order and public health concerns associated with it, the need for targeted interventions for people who smoke crack cocaine is ...accommodate ...
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Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
... safer crack cocaine smoking room was planned for the Insite project; however, to date it has not been ...use crack, and there is less harm reduction information, education, services, and access to ...
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Crack Cocaine-Induced Cardiac Conduction Abnormalities Are Reversed by Sodium Bicarbonate Infusion
... of cocaine-related sudden death, but the majority of these patients die before arriving at the hospital, and the mechanisms responsible for these deaths are unclear ...the cocaine may be responsible for it; ...
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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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Education and equipment for people who smoke crack cocaine in Canada: progress and limits
... Lastly, although collection and safer disposal of used in- jection equipment is a core activity of NSPs, including pro- viding clients with rigid, tamper-resistant, and clearly labeled sharps containers (see [27] for ...
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Potential community and public health impacts of medically supervised safer smoking facilities for crack cocaine users
... (NIDU) crack cocaine smokers and crystal methamphetamine users ...of crack cocaine use, including the risk of non parental transmission of HCV, through the sharing of non-injection drug use ...
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Crack cocaine users views regarding treatment with contingency management in Brazil
... if crack cocaine was the drug of ...from crack co- caine for 4 or more weeks, being diagnosed with schizo- phrenia (confirmed using the structured interview), and not being able to attend treatment ...
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Injecting-related health harms and overuse of acidifiers among people who inject heroin and crack cocaine in London: a mixed-methods study
... and crack cocaine for injection, as these base form drugs are poorly soluble in ...and/or crack into a soluble, injectable form ...including crack cocaine require additional acidifier, ...
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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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Public opinions about supervised smoking facilities for crack cocaine and other stimulants
... Interest in these facilities has been raised by both pub- lic health officials and advocates in Canadian cities where crack cocaine smoking is prevalent [5, 32]. To our knowledge, there are no published ...
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Analysis of Cocaine and Crack Cocaine via Thin Layer Chromatography Coupled to Easy Ambient Sonic Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
... and crack cocaine are usually seized with a great diversity of adulterants, such as benzocaine, lido- caine, caffeine, and ...of cocaine in these drug mixtures is normally per- formed using ...
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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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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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Birth Outcome From a Prospective, Matched Study of Prenatal Crack/Cocaine Use: I. Interactive and Dose Effects on Health and Growth
... many cocaine-exposed infants as controls, one fourth of the sample, were unable to come to and maintain the quiet, alert state needed to be able to administer and score Orientation test ...the cocaine- ...
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Gender differences in patterns of drug use and sexual risky behaviour among crack cocaine users in Central Brazil
... of crack users who were being treated for detoxifica- tion in two large cities of Central Brazil: Goiânia (popula- tion of ...self-reported crack use before hos- ...
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Risk factors associated with Hepatitis C among female substance users enrolled in community based HIV prevention studies
... Multivariate logistic regression was performed to iden- tify factors associated with HCV Ab positivity control- ling for risk factors associated with HCV transmission in four stages (Table 3 ) . In the first stage, when ...
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Cocaine treatment admissions at three sentinel sites in South Africa (1997–2006): findings and implications for policy, practice and research
... of cocaine use in South Africa it is important to remember that poly-drug use is ...where cocaine was the primary drug of abuse other drugs were reported as secondary, typ- ically alcohol and ...had ...
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Frequency, factors and costs associated with injection site infections: Findings from a national multi site survey of injecting drug users in England
... In this study homelessness – a possible marker for injec- tion in public places – was not associated with injection site infections in the final analyses. This may reflect the relatively broad definition used. In ...
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