Publications by authors named "Giovanni Strepparola"

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of olanzapine (OLA) in heroin-dependent patients affected by comorbid schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). Sixty-one patients who met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria for heroin dependence and the criteria for SSD (schizophrenia and schizotypal and schizoaffective-bipolar disorders) were treated in a 12-week prospective observational trial of substitution treatment in combination with OLA or typical antipsychotic haloperidol. Patients were included into 2 subgroups, in relationship with treatment, for the evaluation of the end points at week 12: group 1, SSD treated with OLA (35 patients); group 2, SSD treated with haloperidol (26 patients).

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The present study compared retrospectively in a clinical non-experimental setting the efficacy of buprenorphine (BUP) in different subgroups of dually diagnosed and non-dually diagnosed opioid-dependent patients: all the subjects included in the study showed severe long-lasting heroin addiction and 68.4% were affected by psychiatric comorbidity. Participants (206) (mean age 32.

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