The consumption of crack can constitute in an inauthentic form of the existence that leads a person to live improperly the being-toward-death. Given this reality, this study aimed to comprehend the significance of death and dying for the user of crack and to unveil the meanings attributed to this significance. This qualitative study was conducted, based on the phenomenological method, with 12 c...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of psychosocial stress and attitude toward illness to psychological adjustment among youth with chronic arthritis. METHODS Seventy-five youths with chronic arthritis aged 8-18 years were administered a semi-structured interview assessing illness-related and nonillness-related stressors in important life domains. Children also completed measures of attitud...

nowadays, many governments have found that the main cause of water crises in agricultural sector related to neglecting farmers’ role in irrigation and drainage networks management. water users association has been considered in order to transferring irrigation management to local beneficiaries. if farmers' opinion toward such transferring don't be investigated, it may lead to failure....

state’s highest court, the South Carolina Supreme Court in late 1997 upheld the criminal conviction of a woman charged with child abuse for using crack cocaine during her pregnancy. Finding that a viable fetus is a “child” under the state’s child abuse law, the court ruled that “maternal acts endangering or likely to endanger the life, comfort, or health of a viable fetus” could constitute chil...

BACKGROUND Cocaine abuse is a serious and socially damaging illegal drug problem. Different routes of administration are associated with a specific progression of use, different degrees of abuse liability, propensity for dependence and treatment response. There have been relatively few studies comparing different cocaine users groups and no studies into the characterization of the group of indi...

abstract: as a social and cultural behavior,the relationship between boy and girl is almost a new phenomena in our society.it seems to cause many worries at the various social level by reason of creating some of issues and problems.this research focuses on two main purpose:firstly,to examine girls’ attitude toward relationship with opposite sex and to explore effective elements upon the girl’s ...

this descriptive study investigates medical students' attitudes toward psychiatric wards. the study was completed at two psychiatric hospitals of shaheed navab safavi, and shaheed ismaily, as well as the psychiatric ward of shaheed rahnamoon hospital. medical students at two level of internship and stagery participated in the study. they completed questionnaires containing general informat...

Copyright © 2013, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There is a close relationship between drug abuse and crime. Drug abusers commit crime...

BACKGROUND This study aimed at determining the drug abuse pattern and the frequency of high-risk behaviors among the clients of Methadone Maintenance Treatment Centers and Drop-in Centers in Shahroud County of Semnan Province. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, the data collection tool was a questionnaire including 10 general and 32 specific items about drug abuse pattern and high-risk be...