Drug Abuse Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Drug Abuse, including details on psychology, rehabilitation, consequences, treatment.

Volume 2 (2006), Issue 8 (August)

1. Severity of drug use, initiation of prenatal care, and maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant marijuana and cocaine/heroin users.
   J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, 35(4): 499-508. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Relationship of cosmetic procedures and drug use to hepatitis C and hepatitis B virus infections in a low-risk population.
   Hepatology, 44(2): 341-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Recidivism among male subjects incarcerated for illicit drug use in Taiwan.
   Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 60(4): 444-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. First report of bacteremia by Asaia bogorensis, in a patient with a history of intravenous-drug abuse.
   J Clin Microbiol, 44(8): 3048-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Changes in high-risk behaviors over time among young drug users in South Vietnam: a three-province study.
   AIDS Behav, 10(4): S47-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Sexual and drug use risk behaviors among children and youth in street circumstances in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
   AIDS Behav, 10(4): S57-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Subtypes of illicit drug users: a latent class analysis of data from an Australian twin sample.
   Twin Res Hum Genet, 9(4): 523-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Evidence for a substantial role of sharing of injecting paraphernalia other than syringes/needles to the spread of hepatitis C among injecting drug users.
   J Viral Hepat, 13(8): 560-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Background demographics and risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Karachi, Pakistan.
   Int J Infect Dis, 10(5): 364-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Psychiatric comorbidity is associated with drug use and HIV risk in syringe exchange participants.
    J Nerv Ment Dis, 194(8): 577-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Preventing tobacco and drug use among Thai high school students through life skills training.
    Nurs Health Sci, 8(3): 164-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Co-morbid drug and alcohol and mental health issues in a rural New South Wales Area Health Service.
    Aust J Rural Health, 14(4): 148-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Delay in the initiation of HAART, poorer virological response, and higher mortality among HIV-infected injecting drug users in Spain.
    AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses, 22(8): 715-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Resurgence of alcohol seeking produced by discontinuing non-drug reinforcement as an animal model of drug relapse.
    Behav Pharmacol, 17(4): 369-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Heroin use among youths incarcerated for illicit drug use: psychosocial environment, substance use history, psychiatric comorbidity, and route of administration.
    Am J Addict, 15(3): 233-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. High prognostic specificity of antisocial personality disorder in patients with drug dependence: results from a five-year follow-up.
    Am J Addict, 15(3): 227-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. The influence of age and gender on drug use in the United Kingdom--a review.
    Am J Addict, 15(3): 201-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Intracellular 5-HT 2C-receptor dephosphorylation: a new target for treating drug addiction.
    Trends Pharmacol Sci, 27(9): 455-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Alcohol and drug use and related disorders: An underrecognized health issue among adolescents and young adults attending sexually transmitted disease clinics.
    Sex Transm Dis, 33(9): 565-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. A genetic association study of dopamine metabolism-related genes and chronic headache with drug abuse.
    Eur J Neurol, 13(9): 1009-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C virus subtype 3a in injecting drug users.
    J Med Virol, 78(10): 1296-303. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Identification and quantification of change in Australian illicit drug markets.
    BMC Public Health, 6: 200. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Psychometric evaluation of the Quality of Life Interview, Brief Version, in injection drug users.
    Psychol Addict Behav, 20(3): 316-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Short-term effects of a brief motivational intervention to reduce alcohol and drug risk among homeless adolescents.
    Psychol Addict Behav, 20(3): 254-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Social structural and behavioral underpinnings of hyperendemic hepatitis C virus transmission in drug injectors.
    J Infect Dis, 194(6): 764-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Needle exchange use, sexual risk behaviour, and the prevalence of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections among Bulgarian injection drug users.
    Int J STD AIDS, 17(9): 621-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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