According to the studies and comments of the experts, addiction is a difficult problem in our society. Nowadays, the most important issue related to addiction in our country is the second return of addicts to narcotic substances after once quitting them. In fact, this is the indication of failure or weak performance of addiction-therapy techniques, emphasizing on its physical aspect. However, a...

OBJECTIVE To assess the final year medical students' knowledge, beliefs, and attitude toward cancer pain, and the need for a formal pain curriculum in medical schools. METHODS An epidemiological study was conducted from May 2008 to October 2009 at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to assess the students' knowledge and attitude toward cancer pain management. A...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to internet game addiction for adolescents. METHOD This study was a cross-sectional survey, and data was collected through self-report questionnaires. Data was analyzed using the SPSS program. RESULTS In logistic regression analysis, the risk of being addicted to internet games was 2.22 times higher in males than females. Adol...

This study is a joint project involving alcohol-addiction experts and experts on comparative literature, who selected and defined the literary texts that were employed. The research included long-term alcohol abstainers, members of aftercare supportive-therapy groups (n = 68). The research aimed to obtain some basic information about their reading habits, to test their responsiveness to various...

AIMS To examine whether individual changes in alcohol consumption among female alcoholics under treatment are predicted by level of and changes in depression and dysfunctional attitudes. METHOD A total of 120 women who were treated for alcohol addiction at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm (Sweden) were assessed twice over a 2-year period using the Depression scale from the Symptom Checkli...

Over 25 years anti-opium laws were enacted by three Asian governments in countries where opium use was traditional. Within months, heroin use suddenly appeared; and within a decade, heroin addiction surpassed opium addiction. The laws led to (1) increased price of narcotic drugs, (2) a heroin "industry," (3) corruption of the law enforcement system, and (4) major health problems involving paren...

background: vulnerable women are prone to sexually transmitted diseases (std) due to their special conditions and poor knowledge about these diseases in the society. therefore, the present study aimed to determine the vulnerable women’s self-care needs in knowledge, attitude and practice concerning std. methods: this is a cross-sectional-descriptive study conducted in 2014. the data collection ...