HARCP

HEROIN ADDICTION AND
RELATED CLINICAL PROBLEMS

The official journal of
EUROPAD - European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association
WFTOD - World Federation for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Editor: Icro Maremmani, MD - Pisa, Italy, EU
Associate Editors:
Thomas Clausen, MD - Oslo, Norway
Pier Paolo Pani, MD - Cagliari, Italy, EU
Marta Torrens, MD - Barcelona, Spain, EU
Statistical Editor:
Mario Miccoli, PhD - Pisa, Italy, EU

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2024 Issues

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Vol. 26 • Na. N1 • December 2024

In this issue:

  • The effective management of Addiction: An Italian Experts’ Opinion using a Nominal Group Technique (NGT) Approach
    Simone De Persis, Alessandro Pallucchini, Monica Baiano, Arianna Camporese, Rossella Garofano, Francesco Mancuso, Ilenia Zanoni, Marialuisa Grech, and Salvatore de Fazio
  • Psychometric evaluation of two patients monitored for 12 weeks after switching from racemic methadone to levomethadone agonist therapy
    Gabriele Pasquale De Luca, Gaia Anibaldi, Danilo Paolucci, Paola Motta, and Simone De Persis
  • Efficacy and safety of naldemedine in the long-term treatment of opioid-induced constipation in patients on methadone agonist therapy monitored for three consecutive months
    Emanuele Corbucci, and Piero Pierucci
  • Beginning with buprenorphine depot: characteristics and experiences of the first patients in a French addictions centre.
    Alice Deschenau, Amir Al Tabchi, Marie-Charlotte Noury, Léa Micheletti, Husen Ali-Diabacte, Elisa Vodislav, Nathalie Texier, Sarah Hervy, and Didier Touzeau
  • The effects of heroin on pregnant rats and the reproductive system of female offspring
    Fatemeh Osanloo, Ramin Hajikhani, Gholamhassan Vaezi, and Maryam Bananej
  • Pet ownership, physical activity and mental health among people in opioid maintenance treatment: a prospective, observational study
    Cornelia Haarr Hatlo, Thomas Clausen, Ashley Elizabeth Muller, and Gustavo Sugahara
  • Suicidal behaviour and its risk factors in patients with opioid use disorder
    İpek Buse Güzelce, Bulent Kadri Gultekin, and Muhsin Koray Kılıç
  • Satisfaction of patients on methadone maintenance treatment with changing policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Anat Sason, Marsha Weinstein, Miriam Adelson, Shaul Schreiber, and Einat Peles
  • The relationships among withdrawal symptoms and depression in IV injection and non-injection groups in a population of heroin users
    Kunhua Lee, and Cheng Fang Yen
  • The Impact of Chronic Pain and Depression on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
    Corinne N. Kacmarek, Hannah C. Smith, Maxwell Kuehn, Melanie E. Bennett, Annabelle Belcher, Heather Fitzsimons, William Hall, Aaron Greenblatt, Lan Li, and Letitia Travaglini
  • Using genetic parameters to predict somatization in females with heroin dependence
    Kadir Uludag, Hang Su, Haifeng Jiang, Jiang Du, Na Zhong, and Min Zhao
  • Invisible: An exploratory study of the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on people who use heroin
    Daniela-Irina Stadniciuc, Marie-Claire Van Hout, Stephanie Kewley, and Georgina Mathlin
  • The severity of Heroin Use Disorder in patients at treatment entry and their therapeutic response to Opioid Agonist Treatment
    Filippo Della Rocca, Francesco Lamanna, Lucia Massa, Giulia De Luca, Mario Miccoli, Icro Maremmani, and Angelo G. I. Maremmani
  • "Life feels better with the right medication". Results from a service user organization-led survey of opioid maintenance treatment patients in Norway
    Gabrielle K. Welle-Strand, Marianne Pierron, Ida Kristine Olsen, Ronny Bjørnestad, and Rebecca McDonald
  • Maternal Buprenorphine split dosing
    Cindy Flores, Usman Riaz, Peter Tenore, and Nazar Muhammad
  • Heroin addiction history, psychopathology and stress sensitivity in a sample of migrants to Italy
    Manuel Glauco Carbone, Claudia Tagliarini, Filippo Della Rocca, Marina Ricci, Anna M. Lupi, Lucia Sarandrea, Angela Ceban, Pietro Casella, Icro Maremmani, and Angelo G. I. Maremmani
  • HCV-RNA viral load fingerstick assay to simplify screening and linkage to care of people who use drugs attending Italian addiction treatment centres: A pilot project
    Sarah Vecchio, Claudio Leonardi, Luigi Bartoletti, Daniela Mussi, Roberta Gaudenzi, Eugenia Vernole, Duncan Hill, Matteo Pacini, and Lorenzo Somaini
  • Night eating syndrome, impulsivity, sleep disorder and craving in opioid use disorder patients in remission phase
    Pınar Erdogan Turkmen, Ali Erdogan, and Burak Kulaksızoglu
  • Addressing methamphetamine use in opioid use disorder treatment: Clinical perspectives
    Mustafa Danışman, Gamze Zengin İspir, and Kübra Sezer Katar
  • Group counselling can prolong the remission period in opioid use disorder patients after detoxification and enhance social support, self-efficacy and hopelessness levels in patients and their families in Turkey.
    Belgin Varol, and Fatma Oz
  • A community-based tele medication-assisted treatment (TMAT) for delivery of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: A single-arm, prospective feasibility study
    Roshan Bhad, Deepak MB, Vinit Patel, Jaswant Jangra, Ravindra Rao, and Pooja Shakya
  • Pattern of illicit drug use in Sri Lanka; A detailed analysis from a country of transient point for drug trafficking
    Nuwan Darshana, Champa Wijesinghe, and Vijitha De Silva
  • Liver function and lead levels increase by oral and inhaled opium use in Iranian addiction treatment centres
    Mohamad Ghaiedi, Zahra Barmoudeh, zahra daneshyar, Janmohamad Malekzadeh, and Sajad Hassanzadeh
  • Socio-demographic characteristics and patterns of substance use disorder in Montenegro
    Ena Grbovic, and Bojana Miletic
  • Recruiting and Retaining Patients in Low Threshold Opioid Agonist Treatment: A Retrospective Cohort Study
    Kathleen Henriksen, Jon-Aksel Jacobsen, Elliott Henriksen, Leni Gomes, Linda Elise Wüsthoff, Espen Ajo Arnevik, and Peter Krajci
  • The effect of intravenous heroin injection on gene expression in HIV-1 infected people
    Ahmad Hosseinzadeh Adli, and Seyed Mohammad Jazayeri
  • Prevalence of psychiatric and physical comorbidities in patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD) in Lanarkshire, Scotland. 2018-2019: cross-sectional study
    Hanan Khaled Ali Al-Shemali, Duncan Hill, Tatiana Chama Borges Luz, and Louise Evans
  • Raha syrup attenuates the severity of physical and psychological dependence and voluntary morphine consumption in morphine-withdrawn rats receiving the opium tincture maintenance treatment
    Hajar Yazdani, Mahdi Zahedi-Khorasani, Ali Ghanbari, Ali Khaleghian, and Hossein Miladi-Gorji
  • The maintenance treatment with opium tincture and exercise normalize the electroencephalographic changes and reduce visual image-induced craving in opioid use disorder patients
    Mahya Bavisi, Roshanak Tirdad, Raheb Ghorbani, Masoud Hajirasouli, Reza Khosrowabadi, and Hossein Miladi-Gorji
  • Effects of heroin and other illicit drug usage on family and social network in Sri Lanka. Evidence from a cross sectional study
    Nuwan Darshana, Champa Wijesinghe, and Vijitha De Silva
  • Illicit drug use among Sri Lankan school-going adolescents: A Qualitative study
    Amila Chandrasiri, Nuwan Darshana, Ishara Wanniaracchchi, Sajeewa De Silva, and Konara Somarathne
  • Mental well-being and illicit drug use related risk factors in Sri Lankan institutionalised male drug users
    Nuwan Darshana, Champa Wijesinghe, and Vijitha De Silva
  • Determination of sexual functioning, quality of life levels, and healing factors of substance-abusing men who continue the rehabilitation program in Turkey
    Melike Dişsiz
  • Association between religiosity/spirituality and opioid abuse: A systematic review
    Alessandra Buja, Laura Montecchio, Daniele Vo, and Roberta Lo Bue
  • Amphetamine and amphetamine-like compounds, new psychoactive substances (NPS), and synthetic cathinones. State of the problem in Russia and Belarus
    Tatyana V. Klimenko, Svetlana M. Shakhova, Alexander A. Kozlov, and Sergey A. Igumnov
  • The effect of the physician-nurse-social worker linkage rehabilitation model on the psychological status of MMT patients
    Qiaofang Huang, Shanfang Su, Lian Duan, Junyi Lin, Caimei Zou, Shaojuan Wu, and Shichao Xu
  • Effect of changes in life-related factors on mood status and life quality of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) patients after withdrawal from MMT
    Penghui Cao, Qiaofang Huang, Nannan Pan, Huaxin Li, Daoyi Feng, and Ziyan Fang
  • Somatic and mental health among older patients in opioid agonist therapy: a cross-sectional geriatric assessment study
    Lennart Niels Mayer-Eckardt, Ole Gnirss, Maximilian Meyer, Katharina Roser, Kenneth M. Dürsteler, and Marc Vogel
  • Micro-dosing with buprenorphine when switching from full agonists (methadone, SR-morphine) to buprenorphine treatment in opioid agonist-assisted treatment programmes in Slovenia
    Miha Lavre, and Andrej Kastelic
  • Is the SCL90-based five-dimensional structure able to differentiate Heroin Use Disorder patients with low and high benzodiazepine dependence symptomatology?
    Angelo G. I. Maremmani, Filippo Della Rocca, Silvia Bacciardi, Mario Miccoli, and Icro Maremmani
  • International perspectives on opioid use disorder and treatment: Results from an online convenience sample
    Katrine Melby, Mehdi Farokhnia, Serenella Tolomeo, Roshan Bhad, Jørgen G. Bramnes, Alex Baldacchino, Ravindra Rao, Gomathinayagam Kandasami, Jenna L. Butner, Vicky Phan, Francina Fonseca, Parnian Rafei, Long Jiang, Georgios Tzeferakos, and Geert Dom
  • Extended-release subcutaneous buprenorphine. The 3rd therapeutic revolution
    Marc Reisinger
  • Clinical characterisation of dual depression and association with bipolarity features
    Margherita Barbuti, Jean-Michel Azorin, Jules Angst, Charles L. Bowden, Sergey Mosolov, Allan H. Young, Eduard Vieta, Giulio Perugi, and Icro Maremmani
  • Exploring Theory of Mind and Empathy Progression Alongside Cognitive Gains in Methadone Maintenance Treatment
    Shlomit Zorani, and Einat Peles
  • Evaluation of the introduction of buprenorphine – naloxone oro-adhesive film formulation to patients in NHS Lanarkshire
    Duncan R. B. Hill
  • Perinatal Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapy (iOAT) Treatment Experience: A Qualitative Study
    Charissa Patricelli, Ruth Liu, Shanlea Gordon, Nicole Carter, Karly Stewart, Isabelle Gouin, Vanessa Paquette, Jeff Bone, and Karen Urbanoski
  • Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors of Dropout from Inpatient Detoxification Treatment in Patients with Opioid Use Disorders
    Rahime Dicle Cetiner Akgul, Mine Ergelen, Selim Arpacıoglu, and Murat Yalcın
  • Hospital admissions for alcohol, opioids, cannabinoids and sedatives or hypnotics related intoxications among children, adolescents and young adults in Slovenia: the period before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Mercedes Lovrecic, Mateja Rok Simon, Ales Korosec, and Barbara Lovrecic
  • The estimated and actual prevalence of dementia among heroin addicts in opioid agonist treatment and comparison with general population, In Slovenia
    Mercedes Lovrecic, Icro Maremmani, Manuel Glauco Carbone, and Barbara Lovrecic
  • Clinical characteristics of Substance Use Disorders elderly patients: a look at a Swiss psychogeriatric inpatient unit
    Vincenza Spera, Alireza Moor, Manuel Glauco Carbone, and Icro Maremmani
  • Buprenorphine with and without Gabapentin and Clonidine in detoxification of 5-16 year-old children with Opioid Use Disorder: a randomised controlled trial
    Mahin Eslami Shahrbabaki, Habibeh Ahmadipour, Atefeh Ahmadi, Mohammadamin Abdi, Zahrasadat Shiva, and Marjan Shamspour
  • The rise of the 'Opiate Rule' - A dismal parenthesis for Opioid Agonist Treatment in Sweden from 2010 to 2016
    Bodil Monwell
  • The Opiate Rule - An inferior regulating of opioid agonist treatment in Sweden 2010-2016 and how was it handled in practice
    Bodil Monwell
  • Remission Rates of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Who Got Naltrexone Implantation: A Retrospective Study
    Mustafa Danışman, Seyit Murat Aydın, Gamze Zengin İspir, Kübra Sezer Katar, and Mustafa Batuhan Kurtoğlu
  • Intervention on Dual Disorders: the role of qualitative evaluation for psychopathology observation and psychotherapy research on causation
    Emanuela Atzori
  • Consumption Patterns and Relevant Habits of Patients on Methadone Maintenance Therapy in Tehran, Iran
    Reyhaneh Mehrvar, Saeideh Soltani, and Ali Kheradmand
  • Medical Adjustment of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) with Opioids
    Albrecht Ulmer
  • Need for opioid agonist therapy among opioid users of open drug scenes
    Heike Zurhold, Silke Kuhn, Jens Reimer, and Uwe Verthein
  • Gambling prevalence in patients with dependence on different psychoactive substances
    Zuzana Kamendy, Adam Kurilla, and Lubomir Okruhlica
  • Opioid agonist maintenance treatment in kyrgyzstan: Assessing patients’ changing medical and psychosocial needs over the course of treatment
    Zhyldyz Bakirova, Ulla Pape, and Ingo Ilja Michels
  • Evaluating Substance-Related Dreams and Their Impact on The Treatment Process Through the Mechanism of Censorship in Dreams. A Pilot Study
    Mustafa Danisman, Claudio Colace, Safak Yalcin Sahiner, and Hakki Polat
  • Investigating the Association Between Heroin Dose, Genetics, and Personality Disorders
    Kadir Uludag, Hang Su, Haifeng Jiang, Jiang Du, Na Zhong, and Min Zhao
  • Alcohol Hallucinosis has its distinct entity, or is it a predisposing condition to Delirium Tremens or Major Psychotic Disorder?
    Usman Riaz
  • High-risk behaviour for sexually transmitted diseases and bloodborne viral infections among Institutionalized Male Drug Addicts in Sri Lanka
    Nuwan Darshana, Champa Wijesinghe, and Vijitha De Silva
  • Lifestyle changes during first COVID-19 lockdown: a survey in patients on opioid agonist therapy and medical students in Switzerland
    Francesca Mosar, Ursula S. Spitzer, Maximilian Meyer, Elisa Guggisberg, Alyssa Lüthy, Marc Walter, Marc Vogel, and Kenneth M. Dürsteler
  • Quality of life among opioid use disorder patients on opioid agonist therapy in Vojvodina
    Masa Comic, Dragana Ratkovic, Vladimir Knezevic, Aleksandra Dickov, Svetlana Ivanovic-Kovacevic, Olga Ivetic, Dusan Kuljancic, and Ksenija Kolundzija
  • Rapid transition from high-dose methadone to buprenorphine-naloxone and long-acting buprenorphine in a perinatal patient with Opioid Use Disorder: A case report
    Sara Kreim, Shanlea Gordon, Nicole Carter, Melissa Dreyer, James Ketch, and Charissa J. Patricelli

 

 

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