Objectives: Mindfulness has been defined as “the clear and single-minded awareness of what happens to us in us, at the successive moments perception”. Mindfulness-based therapies have used treatment psychiatric diseases recent years. There is no study on mindfulness addicted adolescents our country. In this study, we aimed determine level factors affecting among adolescents. Methods: Fourty dru...

Editorial of vol. 29-4.

In this issue of Blood, Willems et al describe the dependence of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells on glutamine for maintaining protein synthesis downstream of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and show that the enzyme asparaginase can be used to target this dependence. Using various AML cell lines, primary samples, and CD341 stem cells from healthy donors, the authors support the notion th...

Modern imaging techniques enable researchers to observe drug actions and consequences as they occur and persist in the brains of abusing and addicted individuals. This article presents the five most commonly used techniques, explains how each produces images, and describes how researchers interpret them. The authors give examples of key findings illustrating how each technique has extended and ...

Aim. To investigate the relationship between physical properties of saliva and enamel resistance caries intensity in drug-addicted patients. Materials methods. The study involved 70 patients, who were divided into three groups: main group (1) – 28 drug addicts diagnosed with caries, comparison (2) 22 patients dental hard tissues without a history addiction, control (3) 20 persons carious lesion...

conclusions dexmedetomidine added to bupivacaine in spinal anesthesia is more effective to increase duration of block, providing more appropriate sedation and less postoperative pain scale and post-operative nausea and vomiting (ponv) compared to fentanyl additive. results totally, 84 patients were randomly divided into three groups of 28 patients. onset of sensory block in dex group was signif...

OBJECTIVE Determine the prevalence and compare some genetic markers involved in addictive behavior in a group of addicts to derivative of coca (cocaine/crack) or heroin and a control group of non-addicted people matched for gender, age and ethnicity. METHODS A 120 addicts and 120 non-addicts Colombian male were surveyed and genotyped for 18 polymorphism of the OPRM1, DRD2, DRD4, SLC6A3, SLC6A...