Saberi Zafarghandi, Mohammad Bagher

Addiction Department, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Reviewing, Documenting and Assessing of Addiction Treatment, and Harm Reduction Programs in Iranian Prisons

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to document and assessment of drug related treatment and harm reduction programs in Iranian prisons and suggesting solutions for improvement of these programs. Methods: This study was conducted in three phases including first, collecting library data available at the central library of the prison organization; second, according to the result of the f...

[ 2 ] - Challenges of addiction treatment with opioid agonist drugs from the perspective of stakeholders: A qualitative study

Introduction: Drug use disorder and dependency is one of the most challenging problems in the world. One of the most common therapy for opioid use disorder is agonist maintenance therapy especially methadone maintenance treatment and buprenorphine maintenance treatment. The study aimed to investigate the challenges of providing agonist therapy from the perspective of stakeholders. Materials and...

[ 3 ] - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Short-term Clinical Guideline to Treat Sexual Addiction Disorder in People With Sexual Addiction: A Clinical Trial

Objectives Sex addiction is one type of behavioral addiction that is characterized by extreme fantasies and hard-to-control sexual behaviors. This disorder causes problems in the lives of affected people and their victims. The treatment is non-pharmacological and psychological, which are time-consuming and expensive. Short-term interventions are one of the ways to help these people. This study ...