AbstractBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to continue to impose enormous burdens of morbidity and mortality while severely disrupting societies and economies worldwide. Vaccines are a key strategy to stop the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic. .....
AbstractBurns are serious traumatic injuries. Their management follows a well-established hierarchy of priorities. Lifesaving is the primary objective, then after securing survival of the burn victim, treatment aims at functional recovery, and finally aesthe.....
AbstractMale, Long-Evans rats with lateral hypothalamic stimulating electrodes were tested using a threshold-tracking procedure. This procedure determined the minimum stimulation frequency (i.e., stimulation threshold) necessary to maintain ?30 presses/min d.....
AbstractThe objective of this review is to assess the hazardous effects of substance abuse in Ethiopia. Substance abuse is a maladaptive pattern characterized by repeated adverse consequences related to the repeated use of the substance. Alcohol, khat and ci.....
AbstractBackground: Depression in the peripartum period is prevalent in low-income-countries. The identification of women needing referral is often lacking and on the other hand, women in need of support and treatment do not make use of existing support.
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AbstractEndogenous opioid system plays an essential role in regulating alcohol consumption. Genetic deletion of mu-opioid receptor (MOP-r) decreases alcohol intake and reward in mouse models. A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; A118G, rs1799971) in human .....
AbstractRisk factors for severe COVID-19 pathology are currently being investigated worldwide. Using a mouse model, we identify heavy alcohol and cannabinoid consumption as risk factors for increased pulmonary pathology in the setting of exposure to a microb.....
AbstractObjective: We intend to provide a subjective and scientific report on a tragic incident happened during COVID-19 outbreak in Iran which is a mass methanol poisoning in one of the provinces in Iran. Unexpectedly, this poisoning has outnumbered COVID-1.....
AbstractBackground: A worldwide and ever-growing population of children are using psychoactive substances. To slow this problem, the Child Intervention for Living Drug-Free (CHILD) Curriculum was created to train treatment providers on how to screen, assess,.....
AbstractBackground: Substance use during pregnancy and early parenting years is a well-known global public health problem, but the literature comparing treatment programs for this
subpopulation across countries is limited. This article both describes three.....