Background and purpose: Çancer patients are usually suffering from severe pain and disrupted life style and using a proper analgesic seems to be the best option. Pain management failure or improper dosages of analgesics may lead to drug abuse or substance dependency in cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of drug abuse and substance dependency among cance...

Today, the trend towards drug abuse and psychosis in girls, including social harm, has attracted the attention of officials and experts in various fields such as sociologists, doctors, psychologists, and so on. Objective: To investigate the relationship between the awareness of the effects of drug abuse, psychotropic substances and related laws, and the rate of use of the drugs in the student's...

over the past decades a number of approaches have been applied for forecasting mortality. in 1992, a new method for long-run forecast of the level and age pattern of mortality was published by lee and carter. this method was welcomed by many authors so it was extended through a wider class of generalized, parametric and nonlinear model. this model represents one of the most influential recent d...

The aim of this study was to determine the structural modelling of drug abuse tendency based on personality traits through the mediating role of self-esteem in a group of drug addicts under treatment in Tehran. Method: This research was a correlational study of structural equation. The sample group consisted of 200 people of addicted men who were in addiction treatment centers of Tehran and wer...

Drug abuse has been a very complicated problem challenging humans and a complex phenomenon in modernity, such that drug abuse and addiction are now a great concern of humanity. This phenomenon has detrimental physical, mental, familial, occupational, financial, and ethical impacts. Prevention of addiction is thus a necessity. Given the high expenses incurred by fighting narcotics and drug abuse...