Jack London and White Fang: a lost struggle by Zilberstein, Gleb, Zilberstein, Svetlana, Rocco, Richard M., Righetti, Pier Giorgio

“…Despite the claims by his biographers that he used opium, morphine, and heroin on a regular basis this assertion could not be confirmed by the chemical analyses of the objects here tested. …”
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Stercoral Perforation Requiring Subtotal Colectomy in a Patient on Methadone Maintenance Therapy by A. Sakharpe, Y. K. Lee, G. Park, V. Dy

“…We present a case of stercoral perforation requiring subtotal colectomy in a 41-year-old female who had been on methadone maintenance for a history of long-term intravenous heroin use. Our case highlights the importance of prompt and thorough surgical intervention in the successful treatment of this rare condition.…”
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Understanding cannabis use in Singapore: profile of users and drug progression by Doris Xin Yi Chia, Charis Wei Ling Ng, Pezhummoottil Vasudevan Nair Asharani, Sabina Au Yong, Jun Wen Tan, Noor Azizah Bte Zainuldin, Samuel Kee Guan Chua, Lambert Tchern Kuang Low, Christopher Cheng Soon Cheok, Gomathinayagam Kandasami

“…Cannabis users may progress to other illicit drugs, particularly heroin, later in life.…”
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Les mutilations des corps masculins et féminins dans les contes de transmission orale et leurs effets symboliques by Nicole Belmont

“…The happy outcome that leads the manhandled heroes and heroines to meet their destiny evokes the violence of some of the rites of passage of young people, at the end of which they attain the possibility of marriage. …”
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Candida Empyema as a Red Flag for Esophageal Rupture: A Case Report and Literature Review by Naureen Ali, Getahun Abate

“…Candida empyema is a rare entity with an extremely high mortality rate.We present a case of multi species Candida empyema in an immunocompetent female patient with Boerhaave syndrome secondary to retching and vomiting after heroin withdrawal. This case highlights an unusual presentation of a common infection but stresses on the fact that a high index of suspicion is necessary for early identification, prompt initiation of antifungal therapy, and drainage with surgical repair to improve overall survival and outcomes.…”
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Exploitation Cinema and the Lesbian Imagination by Anne Crémieux

“…(1965) or Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), and their reassessment, including in films and TV series that pay homage to female action heroines of the past.…”
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Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales by Daniela Daniele

“…In her feminization of Hawthorne’s famous Italian tales, Alcott made of her talented heroines not only objects but subjects of their art. …”
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La fabrique des mères imaginaires dans les séries télévisées françaises (1992-2012) by Sarah Lécossais

“…This paper shows that French TV shows construct a hegemonic mother figure (a caring, loving, listening one…) which has to be analysed in terms of gender, race, sexuality or profession. Indeed heroines are rarely non-white, lesbians or happily unemployed. …”
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Women in Trouble: Much Ado About Nothing, Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Franziska Quabeck

“…This is due to an inextricable bond between gender and comedy that targets the audience’s expectations of normative femininity. The comic heroines in these three texts are all funny because they deliberately and consciously defy conventional constraints of femininity. …”
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Opioid-related harms and experiences of care among people in justice settings in New South Wales, Australia: evidence from the National Ambulance Surveillance System by Naomi Beard, Michael McGrath, Harry M. X. Lai, James Wilson, Anthony Hew, Amaya Muñoz Labiano, Dan I. Lubman, Rowan P. Ogeil

“…Symptoms of opioid withdrawal were noted in 35% of attendances, most commonly for heroin (51%) and withdrawal from OAT medications (48%). …”
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Chains of dispossession and communities in struggle: the illegal opiate market in Guerrero (Mexico) by Inés Giménez-Delgado

“…Through the lens of ethnography and mixed methodology, it is examined the dynamics and changing characteristics of the commodity chain of heroin, from field production to consumption and money laundering, and it is analysed the different logics of dispossession involved, as well as the rationales of normative discourses in producing communities and their survival strategies. …”
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A Case of a 34-Year-Old Female with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure and Proximal Muscle Weakness by Alex Diaz, Surit Sharma

“…We present a case of a 34-year-old female with a history of heroin abuse who presented to the ED with acute respiratory failure, diplopia, and proximal muscle weakness. …”
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Amphetamine use as a predictor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality and morbidity: a longitudinal cohort study of criminal justice clients by Ada Åhman, Jonas Berge, Anders Håkansson

“…Potential predictors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events were investigated.ResultSelf-reported main drug was amphetamine in 51.5% (n = 1,247), polysubstance use in 33% (n = 799), and heroin in 15.5% (n = 376) of the cohort. Total observational time for the entire cohort was 23,911 person-years [median 10.3 years (IQR 9.3–11.2 years)]. …”
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« Knocking on Mrs Grundy’s door with a bomb of dynamite » : peur(s) des femmes dans quelques New Woman novels des années 1893-1895 by Nathalie Saudo

“…Their daring authors and courageous heroines engaged with fears of racial degeneration, male pollution and sexual freedom. …”
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Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction by Anna Pochmara

“…Such imposed mobility is countered by the self-determined action undertaken by the black heroines not only to free themselves but also to reunite their families. …”
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‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…This essay explores the fundamental contradictions of humour in Une Culotte by looking at how Bleackley situates his New Women heroines within the context of nineteenth-century British feminism. …”
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Delayed Presentation of Gluteal Compartment Syndrome: The Argument for Fasciotomy by John E. Lawrence, Duncan J. Cundall-Curry, Kuldeep K. Stohr

“…He reported injecting heroin the previous morning. Following an initial diagnosis of acute limb ischaemia the patient was transferred to a tertiary centre where Computed Tomography Angiography was reported as normal. …”
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A Rare Manifestation of Asymptomatic Ebstein’s Anomaly with Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis by Carmel Moazez, Vicken Zeitjian, Christian Breburda, Ranjini Roy

“…Our patient is a 43-year-old male with a history of intravenous heroin abuse who presented to the emergency department with worsening shortness of breath and lower extremity edema. …”
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Propagandes, films et guerre du Vietnam : histoires d’hommes et de femmes ou propagande du « genre » de The Deer Hunter (1978) à Path to War (2002) by Alexandra Boudet-Brugal

“…It is true that overall we encounter no heroines but “super-hero soldiers” who rescue women (Heaven and Earth, Coming Home); however the representations offer a new space, emancipated from historical and social expectations. …”
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“INTEGRITY, DISCIPLINE AND HUMBLE, CONSTANT HARD WORK – THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF A LONG AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER” by Adél FEKETE

“…Throughout her career, she performed many prima donna roles (such as Saffi in The Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss II, Countess Liza in The Land of Smiles by Franz Lehár, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Victoria etc.) and has achieved well-deserved recognition for her interpretation of Verdi’s heroines – Abigaille, in Nabucco, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera, Amerlia Grimaldi in Simon Boccanegra as well as Lady Macbeth, but also for the roles of Micaëla (from Carmen by Georges Bizet), Santuzza (from Cavaleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni), Elisabeth (in Wagner’s Tannhäuser) or Puccini’s Tosca. …”
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