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Heroin

Polydrug use with opioid involvement: Results from a national sample of U.S. civilians aged 12 years or older

Kele Ding, Saroj Bista, Trisha Welter, Krista K. Wheeler, Gary A. Smith, Jingzhen Yang

published 18 Mar 2026

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Factors influencing methamphetamine use among Lahu hill tribe youth in Chiang Rai, Thailand: A case‒control study

Phootawan Thinpanyawong, Tawatchai Apidechkul, Karl Peltzer, Pilasinee Wongnuch

published 12 Mar 2026

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Exendin-4 enhances GLP-1 signaling and reduces anxiety-like behaviors in male heroin withdrawal mice

Yang Xiang, Xiaowei Yan, Rongrong Li, Chunlu Li, Dan Yin, Cancan Luo, Yingqi Xiong, Yan Hong, Yixin Li, Baijuan Xia

published 12 Mar 2026

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Trends and characteristics during 17 years of naloxone distribution and administration through an overdose prevention program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Nabarun Dasgupta, Alice Bell, Malcolm Visnich, Maya Doe-Simkins, Eliza Wheeler, Adams L. Sibley, Maryalice Nocera, Amy E. Seitz, Dorothy Chang, Summer Barlow, Zachary D. W. Dezman, Jana K. McAninch

published 24 Oct 2025

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Mobile telephone-delivered Contingency Management (mCM) to reduce heroin use in individuals with opioid use disorder (CM4OUD): A feasibility study protocol

Carol-Ann Getty, John Strang, Ewan Carr, Jesse Dallery, Nicola Metrebian

published 28 May 2025

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The effect of location in mining or borderland areas on HIV incidence among people who use drugs attending a harm reduction programme in Myanmar, 2014–2021: A retrospective cohort study

Lucy Platt, Khine Wut Yee Kyaw, Sujit D. Rathod, Aung Yu Naing, Sophia Garkov, Murdo Bijl, Bayard Roberts

published 09 May 2025

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“Everyone says ‘safe sex’ but no one ever says ‘safe drugs’, you know?”: Perspectives on the intersection of drug checking services, drug policy and the overdose crisis

Jeff Ondocsin, Lissa Moran, Daniel Ciccarone, Simon Outram, Dan Werb, Nicole Holm, Emily A. Arnold

published 17 Apr 2025

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Estimation of the prevalence of substance use by wastewater-based epidemiology study in four cities of Guangdong, China

Wei Wang, Dan Wang, Li Liu, Cunxi Qiu, Junyi Fan, Yuhan Jin

published 09 Apr 2025

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Factors influencing early sexual initiation among hill tribe youths in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand: A community-based cross-sectional study

Ratipark Tamornpark, Tawatchai Apidechkul, Panupong Upala, Chalitar Chomchoei, Fartima Yeemard

published 08 Apr 2025

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“You take care of people, people will take care of you”: Moral Economies and an Unpredictable Drug Market

Erin E. Gould, Siddhi S. Ganesh, Anthony J. DiMario, Jimi Huh, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Rachel Carmen Ceasar

published 02 Apr 2025

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The burden of unlawful use of opioid and associated epidemiological characteristics in Africa: A scoping review

Hope Onohuean, Frasia Oosthuizen

published 07 Mar 2025

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Qualitative findings from North America’s first drug compassion club

Jeanette Bowles, Eris Nyx, Jeremy Kalicum, Thomas Kerr

published 31 Dec 2024

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Analyzing and predicting short-term substance use behaviors of persons who use drugs in the great plains of the U.S.

Nguyen Thach, Patrick Habecker, Bergen Johnston, Lillianna Cervantes, Anika Eisenbraun, Alex Mason, Kimberly Tyler, Bilal Khan, Hau Chan

published 27 Nov 2024

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