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Original Source: Lupus anticoagulant and ANCA associated thrombotic vasculopathy due to cocaine contaminated with levamisole: a case report and review of the literature.
A 2010 US report recently detected the presence of levamisole in greater than 77 % of seized cocaine samples. A syndrome of retiform purpura, often involving ears and flanks, with vasculopathy or vasculitis on biopsy, associated with anti-nuclear cytoplasmic antibodies as well as antiphospholipid antibodies, previously associated with therapeutic use of levamisole has now re-emerged, and is associated with cocaine adulterated with levamisole. Patients with this unusual constellation of signs and laboratory...
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Lupus is a systemic autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body. As with other autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks the body’s cells and tissue resulting in inflammation...
Discoid lupus erythematosus DLE
Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a disease of the skin causing atrophy, scarring and photosensitivity. DLE affects between 17 and 48 per 100,000 people, occuring twice as often in women. The cha...
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Crack cocaine wreaks havoc in Rio shantytown
Firecrackers and sporadic gunfire greeted the police-escorted social workers as they drove into northern Rio's Jacarezinho shantytown, home to a large population of crack cocaine addicts.
Fall in heroin and crack use as drugs lose appeal, particularly for the young
(Medical Xpress)—The number of heroin and crack cocaine users in England has fallen below 300,000 for the first time.
Treating cocaine dependence: A promising new pharmacotherapy
(Elsevier) Medication development efforts for cocaine dependence have yet to result in an FDA approved treatment. The powerful rewarding effects of cocaine, the profound disruptive impact of cocaine d...
Combination of mixed amphetamine salts and topiramate shows promise for cocaine dependence
Medication development efforts for cocaine dependence have yet to result in an FDA approved treatment. The powerful rewarding effects of cocaine, the profound disruptive impact of cocaine dependence o...
A Promising New Pharmacotherapy For Treating Cocaine Dependence
Medication development efforts for cocaine dependence have yet to result in an FDA approved treatment. The powerful rewarding effects of cocaine, the profound disruptive impact of cocaine dependence o...
World Lupus Day: Lupus organizations to rally together to raise awareness of lupus
The Lupus Foundation of America and lupus organizations around the globe are rallying together on May 10, World Lupus Day, to urge action and raise awareness of lupus, a mysterious and devastating dis...
Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) March 08, 2013 Lupus Bible is the new achievement of Julia Liu, who claims to give people the lupus treatment to help them get rid of their lupus disease permanently and natur...
Boy's death highlights Brazil's raids on "cracklands"
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Brazilian boy was hit by a car and killed on Thursday as he fled a drug sweep by police and social workers, reign
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BACKGROUND: Stroke in crack-cocaine abusers is increasingly recognized. We aimed to identify significant differences in stroke risk factors, characteristics, and outcomes between hospitalized stroke p...
Smoked cocaine in socially-depressed areas.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The main objectives of this study are to describe the smoked cocaine user's profile in socially-depressed areas and their needs from a harm-reduction perspective, to investigate...
Recent in vitro and in vivo research has suggested that cocaine has a direct effect on the pathogenesis of AIDS. These findings are confirmed by epidemiological studies linking the use of injected, in...
The role of crack cocaine in accelerating the HIV epidemic among heterosexual populations has been well documented. Little is known about crack use as an HIV risk factor among African American men who...
Hair Cortisol and Stressful Life Events Retrospective Assessment in Crack Cocaine Users.
Background: Some evidence suggests that altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning in cocaine users might play a role in the pathophysiology of substance abuse. This study aimed to...
