heroin

Dopamine Neurons Projecting to Medial Shell of the Nucleus Accumbens Drive Heroin Reinforcement

Scientific article

30 October 2018

Abstract The dopamine (DA) hypothesis posits the increase of mesolimbic dopamine levels as a defining commonality of addictive drugs, initially causing reinforcement, eventually leading to compulsive consumption. While much experimental...

Wound Botulism Outbreak Among Persons Who Use Black Tar Heroin — San Diego County, California, 2017–2018

Scientific article

4 January 2019

Summary What is already known about this topic? Wound botulism is a rare but serious illness associated with black tar heroin use, especially by subcutaneous injection (skin popping). What is added by this report? During September 2017...

Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016

Scientific article

12 December 2018

Abstract Objective: This report identifies the specific drugs involved most frequently in drug overdose deaths in the United States from 2011 through 2016. Methods: Record-level data from the 2011–2016 National Vital Statistics System...

National Opioid Maintenance Treatment Conference

18 October 2018

Oslo

Norway

The national opioid maintenance conference is a biennial meeting place for networking, updates in the field, and capacity-building. Participants includes experts within opioid treatment, specialized health care providers, municipal service providers, patient advocacy groups, and other organizations involved in wraparound care.

Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic. Naltrexone Treatment of Offenders: Ethics and Evidence

Book

17 August 2018

Opinion is sharply divided on the ethics and effectiveness of pressuring opioid-dependent offenders to take the opiate-blocker naltrexone. Especially sharp is the controversy over long-acting products not approved for medical use in the UK...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Intervening to Safeguard the Community

Book

15 August 2018

Key studies on treatment’s contribution to safeguarding the community and preventing crime. Commentary addresses two highly controversial issues: whether it is ever safe to leave children with seriously problematic drug users, and the...

Naloxone in Homelessness Services

Scientific article

31 May 2018

With drug-related deaths at the highest number since comparable statistics began, why aren’t more homelessness services using naloxone to prevent overdose deaths?

The Emerging Role of Inhaled Heroin in the Opioid Epidemic: A Review

Scientific article

9 July 2018

This article addresses encephalopathies: disease, damage, or malfunction of the brain. The authors attribute these problems to smoked/inhaled heroin which they label CTD (chasing the dragon). However, CTD (inhaling heroin fumes) has been...

Baltimore Mayor’s Heroin Treatment & Prevention Task Force Report

Book

13 July 2015

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In October 2014, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake convened the Heroin Treatment and Prevention Task Force to address the critical problem of opioid addiction in Baltimore City. The goal of the Task Force was to study the...

Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder with Ibogaine: Detoxification and Drug Use Outcomes

Scientific article

25 May 2017

ABSTRACT Background: Ibogaine is a monoterpene indole alkaloid used in medical and nonmedical settings for the treatment of opioid use disorder. Its mechanism of action is apparently novel. There are no published prospective studies of drug...