Sponsor's Foreword by David Shurtleff, Sergi Ferré

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Risk-Based Prenatal Hepatitis C Testing Practices and Results, Alaska 2013-2016 by Leisha D. Nolen, Courtney Gustin, Sara Seeman, Neil Murphy, Sarah Truitt, Sarah Schillie, Michael G. Bruce, Dana Bruden, James Tiesinga, Brian McMahon

“…Multiple risk behaviors were evaluated, including drug dependency or abuse (drug abuse), tobacco use, alcohol dependency or abuse, and late presentation to prenatal care. …”
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Advancing Behavioral HIV Prevention: Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention for People Living with HIV and Alcohol Use Disorders by M. L. Armstrong, A. M. LaPlante, F. L. Altice, M. Copenhaver, P. E. Molina

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Responsible research in health disparities using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM (ABCD) study by MR Gonzalez, C Cardenas-Iniguez, DE Linares, S Wonnum, K Bagot, EJ White, A Cuan, S DiMatteo, YD Akiel, P Lindsley, JC Harris, E Perez-Amparan, TD Powell, Comité Organizador Latino de City Heights (COLCH), G Dowling, D Alkire, WK Thompson, TM Murray

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Heteromerization of G-Protein–Coupled Receptors. Implications for Central Nervous System Function and Dysfunction by Sergi Ferré

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Analytical Methods Used for the Detection and Quantification of Benzodiazepines by Zidane Qriouet, Zineb Qmichou, Nadia Bouchoutrouch, Hassan Mahi, Yahia Cherrah, Hassan Sefrioui

“…Unfortunately, these drugs are present in the illegal street market, leading to a lot of drug abuse amongst some addicted users, road insecurity, and suicide. …”
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MDMA Impairs Response to Water Intake in Healthy Volunteers by Matthew J. Baggott, Kathleen J. Garrison, Jeremy R. Coyle, Gantt P. Galloway, Allan J. Barnes, Marilyn A. Huestis, John E. Mendelson

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Reinstatement of Morphine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference in Mice by Priming Injections by B. Ribeiro Do Couto, M. A. Aguilar, C. Manzanedo, M. Rodríguez-Arias, J. Miñarro

“…To construct a model of relapse of drug abuse in mice, the induction, we evaluated the extinction and reinstatement of morphine-induced place preference. …”
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Uncommon Pathogen, Lactobacillus, Causing Infective Endocarditis: Case Report and Review by Muhannad Antoun, Yousef Hattab, Fadi-Al Akhrass, Leigh Danielle Hamilton

“…Nonetheless, it has been reported as case reports in correlation with increased probiotic use, dental caries, and intravenous drug abuse.…”
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Metastatic Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Presenting as Jugular Venous Thrombosis by Prince Cheriyan Modayil, Sathyan Panthakalam, David C. Howlett

“…Jugular venous thrombosis is unusual and is associated with central venous catheterisation, intravenous drug abuse and head and neck sepsis. It is rarely associated with malignancy. …”
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The SISAP: A New Screening Instrument for Identifying Potential Opioid Abusers in the Management of Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Within General Medical Practice by Robert B Coambs, Josée L Jarry, Anusha C Santhiapillai, Rixi V Abrahamsohn, Cristina M Atance

“…However, in patients with chronic pain, addiction to opioid analgesics is exceedingly rare when there is no prior history of alcohol or drug abuse.…”
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RUSSIA AND CHINA: THE MAIN AREAS OF DEVIANCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY by S. Yanli, M. Romanenko

“…It was revealed that on threats, social urgency and magnitude of the manifestations of the first place both in Russia and in China took the crime, followed by alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, corruption. There are two opposing trends in the evolution of deviance: in Russia there is in General a spontaneous escalation of deviance in China-minimization of deviance, mixing its manifestations. …”
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Patients' perspectives on buprenorphine subcutaneous implant: a case series by Claudio Pierlorenzi, Marco Nunzi, Sabino Cirulli, Giovanni Francesco Maria Direnzo, Lucia Curatella, Sandra Liberatori, Annalisa Pascucci, Edoardo Petrone, Generoso Ventre, Concettina Varango, Maria Luisa Pulito, Antonella Varango, Cosimo Dandolo, Brunella Occupati, Roberta Marenzi, Claudio Leonardi

“…Despite the heterogeneity in social and educational backgrounds, health status, and drug abuse initiation histories, the case series reveals consistent positive treatment outcomes such as detoxification, absence of withdrawal symptoms and of side effects. …”
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Abscess Formation after Septic Arthritis in the Sternoclavicular Joint of Two Healthy Men by Jeppe Henriksen, Mariann Tang, Vibeke Hjortdal

“…Abscess formation after septic arthritis in the sternoclavicular joint is a rare phenomenon in healthy people without immune suppression, intravenous drug abuse, or diabetes. Here we report two cases with formation of abscess in two middle-aged men, with no relevant comorbidities and no obvious sites of infection. …”
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Functionally important respiratory symptoms and continued cigarette use versus e-cigarette switching: population assessment of tobacco and health study waves 2-6Research in context by James D. Sargent, Kristin Lauten, Kathryn C. Edwards, Susanne E. Tanski, Todd A. MacKenzie, Laura M. Paulin, Mary F. Brunette, Maciej L. Goniewicz, Amanda Malasky, Debra Stark, Fernando B. de Moura, Holly Griffin, Kimberly H. Nguyen, Eric Backlund, Heather L. Kimmel, John H. Kingsbury, Jenny E. Ozga, K Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland

“…Funding: This manuscript is supported with Federal funds from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health and Human Services, under contract to Westat (contract nos. …”
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Obstacles and challenges to the national narcotics agency (BNN) of papua province in managing drugs trafficing and illicity goods (case study in Jayapura city) by Melyana Ratana Pugu, Made Selly Dwi Suryanti

“…BNN Papua has made various efforts to ensure that drug abuse and illicit trafficking disappear from Indonesia. …”
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Exercise and Physical Activity in the Therapy of Substance Use Disorders by Elisabeth Zschucke, Andreas Heinz, Andreas Ströhle

“…The present work reviews studies addressing the therapeutic effects of exercise in alcohol abuse/dependence, nicotine abuse/dependence, and illicit drug abuse/dependence. In the field of smoking cessation, evidence is strong for exercise as an effective adjuvant treatment, whereas no generalizable and methodologically strong studies have been published for alcohol and drug treatment so far, allowing only preliminary conclusions about the effectiveness of exercise in these disorders. …”
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A Case Report of Subacute Combined Spinal Cord Degeneration Caused by Nitrous Oxide (‘Laughing Gas’) Abuse by J. Guk, J. Valančienė, A. Klimašauskienė

“…The medical community should therefore be aware of the increasing scale of recreational N2O exposure and the possible complications of this drug abuse. Early recognition and treatment of N2O toxicity are crucial. …”
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The Psych Behind Psychedelics: Exploring Hallucinogen Use as a Marker for Untreated Mental Health Disorders by Liyana Ahmed, Sanjana Konda, Latha Ganti

“…The positive correlation between hallucinogen use and other drug use indicates the widespread drug abuse problem, especially within a younger population in which drugs pose a larger neurological threat.…”
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Paraspinal and Extensive Epidural Abscess: The Great Masqueraders of Abdominal Pain by Andrew Chu, Thu Thu Aung, Uday Shankar

“…Predisposing risk factors include diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus, intravenous drug abuse, and previous history of spinal surgery or injection. …”
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