Pregabalin (PGB) is a psychoactive drug, approved by the FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) for neuropathic pain associated with peripheral diabetic neuropathy, for postherpetic neuralgia, for epilepsy as combined therapy in adults with partial seizures and for fibromyalgia.1 PGB has also been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.2-4...

We describe a case report where buprenorphine was successfully used for the management of kratom ( Mitragyna speciosa) dependency during Covid-19 pandemic in specialist community substance misuse treatment service. The individual had notable iatrogenic on oral over counter and prescribed opioid medication. She resorted to using as ‘tea’ self-detoxify before getting into difficulty. Upon present...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of group psychotherapy with transactional analysis (TA) approach on emotional intelligence (EI), executive functions and substance dependency among drug-addicts at rehabilitation centers in Mashhad city, Iran, in 2013. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, case- control stages, 30 patien...

UNLABELLED The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in patients under treatment within the addictive disorders assistance units of Galicia (Spain). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 64 healthcare professionals performed clinical diagnosis of mental disorders (on DSM IV-TR criteria) in 2300 patients treated throughout March 2010 in 21 addictive disorders...

The aim of this study was to evaluate possible interactions between severity of borderline personality features (BPFs), dissociative experiences, and alexithymia among substance-dependent men while controlling for their current age, depression, and anxiety. Participants were 200 substance-dependent men consecutively admitted to a dependency treatment unit. The Borderline Personality Inventory, ...

We study a system of two coupled nonlinear parabolic equations. It constitutes a variant of the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis, i.e. it models the behaviour of a population of bacteria that interact by means of a signalling substance. We assume an external confinement for the bacteria and a nonlinear dependency of the chemotactic drift on the signalling substance concentration. We perform an...