… groups, but its distribution within the brain did differ. Both cocaine and heroin abuse promoted
… less CD3-positive cells in the brains of heroin abusers compared with cocaine abusers. …

… to the chemical composition of the abused opioid. This review details the neurobiological
effects of oxycodone, morphine, heroin… Clinical evidence from heroin abusers found decreased …

… the most salient neuropathology, histochemical, and ultracellular reactions associated with
the current most commonly abused … amphetamine abuse, trauma, liver disease, heroin abuse, …

… Chasing the Dragon Chasing the dragon is a method of heating heroin over aluminum foil
with controlled flame of a lighter and inhaling the resultant fumes by following or chasing after …

… models, this book will focus on the neuropathological findings associated with drugs of …
According to the authors, heroin abuse increases the conditions of oxidative stress whereby …

… These findings, in conjunction with positive inhalational heroin abuse and the absence of
any other positive laboratory findings, are considered pathognomonic.[ 9 17 18 ] Additional …

… heroin and the route of administration is unknown. Furthermore … the neuropathological
features suggest that hypoxic-ischemic injury accounts for the leucoencephalopathy of drug abuse …

… , the cause of muscle necrosis in heroin users – in contrast to MDMA use – is not necessarily
considered to be a systemic effect of the heroin but rather local compression of, eg, the …

… been analyzed by an experienced neuropathologist (CM) who … of the slightly longer
postmortem interval in the heroin group … Finally, due to the young age of death in the heroin group, …

… Microscopic examination of the brains of heroin addicts has revealed decreased neuronal …
in chronic alcoholic patients, and a neuropathologic study revealed thalamic and mammillary …