Heroin treatment

Fecho, K., Nelson, C. J., and Lysle, D. T., Phenotypic and functional assessments of immune status in the rat spleen following acute heroin treatment, Immunopharmacology, 46, 193, 2000. 

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In 1970, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was enacted into federal law. One purpose of the act was to clarify the ways in which medical personnel could legally dispense methadone to heroin addicts. In order to further clarify heroin treatment parameters, the Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974 was passed, which set forth minimum standards for all... 

Note The natural fluorescence colors of some flavonoids [7, 9] and anthracene derivatives [16] are altered by the ammonia treatment. This makes possible differentiation on the basis of color. Detection limits per chromatogram zone have been reported of 2 ng for morphine and heroin [2], 6 ng for ochratoxin A [5] and 1 pg for penicillic acid [13]. 

Jerry Jbnes is to begin receiving methadone for the treatment of heroin dependency, tkrry asks why methadone, a narcotic, is effective in the treatment of narcotic dependency. How wouldyou explain this to the patient What information would be important to give this patient while he is in the methadone program ... 

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Several CM studies have explored interactions between medication and psychosocial treatments for substance use disorders. In a 12-week randomized, double-blind study of buprenorphine-maintained opioid- and cocaine-dependent patients, Kosten et al. (2003a) found that desipramine and CM together led to greater abstinence from cocaine and heroin and more consecutive weeks of abstinence than either treatment individually or placebo. A later... 

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