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Addiction to intravenously administered drugs has been a serious epidemiological problem for years. Among the related health complications, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is one of the most important. This paper provides an illustrative presentation of DVT in intravenous drug users (IDUs), HIV-positive subjects among them.
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Substances of plant origin have been used to induce hallucinations for a long time, in religious ceremonies and rituals as well as in pain relief. Psilocybin and psilocin naturally occur in the fungal genus Psilocybe. Due to the psychedelic effects and relative harmlessness of these substances and the fact that they do not cause physical addiction, psilocybin and psilocin recently have been increa
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In this study, we applied graph theory on resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the complex brain network in alcohol dependent patients. Patients with alcohol dependence showed lower global brain network efficiency and strength with longer alcohol dependence duration, and with more severe alcohol use. Alcohol use severity was not associated with brain network efficienc
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The glutamatergic projection from the ventral subiculum of the hippocampus (vSUB) to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell has been reported to play a key role in drug‐related behavior. The GluN2B subunit of N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptors (NMDARs) in the NAc can be selectively elevated after the retrieval of drug‐conditioned memory. However, whether the increased GluN2B‐containing
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