BACKGROUND Little attention has been paid to understanding the impact of values, attributes and characteristics of drugs workers on therapeutic relationships and treatment outcomes. Interaction of values with other variables is considered to be of importance since values play a role in determining attitudes and behaviours. This exploratory study investigates the impact of drug workers' personal...

Acknowledgements This publication is based on an EMCDDA-commissioned project which examined methods for estimating the prevalence of problem drug use at the local level. During this and a previous project, the authors relied on the support of researchers throughout the European Union and within the EMCDDA. It would not have been possible to conduct local prevalence estimation projects without t...

Sir, In Asia, Illicit opium and cannabis are produced mainly in Afghanistan, which makes major social and health problems for some countries, particularly Iran as the neighborhood. [1] In Iran, opium and hashish have been used for near 300 years, [2] but other drugs such as heroin, buprenorphine, cocaine, tramadol, and ecstasy are new drugs of abuse in this country. [3-6] Abuses of the new drug...

the present study aimed to investigate the relationship of co-dependency and relationship satisfaction among spouse of alcohol abusers. It was hypothesized that there is significant relationship between codependency ad interpersonal satisfaction among spouse of alcohol abuser. It was also hypothesized that higher the denial, selfesteem, control and compliance will predict lower interpersonal sa...

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd drug misuse a psychiatric view of a mode...

OBJECTIVE The study was conducted to assess the validity and quality of data held by one of the UK regional drug misuse databases (DMD). DESIGN The research was multi-centred and used retrospective analysis to assess the validity of data held on the database. SETTING The Regional Database is managed at the University of Manchester Drug Misuse Research Unit and uses data returned by medical ...

OBJECTIVES Few prospective studies are available on the relationship between incarceration and HIV risk among injection drug users (IDUs). The authors evaluated self-reported rates of syringe sharing and incarceration among a cohort of IDUs. METHODS This study analyzed syringe lending by HIV-infected IDUs and syringe borrowing by HIV-negative IDUs among participants enrolled in the Vancouver ...

Given what is known about the extent of the drug abuse and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics (ch. 2), the next logical question is whether the drug treatment system in the United States has the capacity and flexibility to meet the demand for treatment. Data limitations on the capacity, need for, and cost of treatment services are an impediment to answering this question and to more a...

Families who are socially excluded are vulnerable to problems related to the use of psychoactive substances. This study aimed to identify the perception regarding drugs use among families that lived in extreme poverty and participated in a social-educational group in the suburbs of a city in the interior of São Paulo State. A survey-like quantitative study was conducted involving 70 members of ...