Stroke is the third commonest cause of death and single largest cause of adult disability
worldwide. Whilst the majority of strokes in older individuals are due to large or small vessel …

We report a patient who developed acute myelopathy after intranasal insufflation of
amphetamines and heroin. The functional prognosis was very poor; after 4 months, she …

Résumé En France, un quart des accidents vasculaires cérébraux (AVC) ischémiques
surviennent chez des adultes de moins de 65 ans. Un cas sur trois environ reste sans …

Patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) for opiate dependence have
altered nociception, complicating analgesic treatment. Increasing numbers of patients are …

Background Animal studies suggest that exposure to either of the two widely used drugs of
abuse, heroin or cocaine, causes depletion of the antioxidant, reduced glutathione, a …

Over the past 10 years, diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) has become a tool not only for
acute stroke detection but for probing tissue physiology in many different disease processes …

Background Cognitive deficits and personality pathology are prevalent in opiate
dependence, even during periods of remission, and likely contribute to relapse …

In the midst of the national opioid crisis, it is necessary for emergency physicians and
radiologists to be familiar with presentations of opioid-related complications. We describe a …

While cocaine use is thought to be associated with aneurysmal rupture, it is not known
whether heroin use increases the risk of rupture in patients with non-mycotic saccular …