Introduction: motivational interviewing techniques to manipulate and extract of patients' good behavior in order achieve to their better health behavior changes. Materials and Methods: The type of research used in this quasi-experimental, pre-test and post-test in done by control group. The statistics obtained from the population the population consists of all individuals associated with drug...

background: chronic infection with hepatitis c virus (hcv) is increasingly recognized as a major global health problem. illicit injection drug use is an important risk factor for the rising hepatitis c virus (hcv) prevalence in ir iran. objectives: the objective of this study was to determine the long-term effectiveness (total quality adjusted life years (qalys) gained) of methadone maintenance...

There are few approved drugs available for the treatment of patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and none have been approved in the twenty-first century. Four drugs; thiotepa in 1959, BCG Tice in 1989, BCG Connaught in 1990, and valrubicin in 1998, have been approved for the treatment of NMIBC. In addition to these four agents, mitomycin is commonly used off-label as an intr...

Co-occurrence of HIV and substance abuse is associated with poor outcomes for HIV-related health and substance use. Integration of substance use and medical care holds promise for HIV patients, yet few integrated treatment models have been reported. Most of the reported models lack data on treatment outcomes in diverse settings. This study examined the substance use outcomes of an integrated tr...

Kathleen Carroll, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Division of Substance Abuse Yale University School of Medicine Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare Center West Haven, Connecticut R. Lorraine Collins, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Research Institute on Addictions State University of New York, University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York T. Ron Jackson, M.S.W. Executive Director Evergre...

Treatment of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis With Moisture-Retentive Ointment: A Case Report and Review of the Literature BISHARA S. ATIYEH, MD, FACS, RUWAYDA DHAM, PHD, M FAYEZ YASSIN, MB, BCH, FRCS, AND KUSAI A. EL-MUSA, MD Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Drug Research Center, Dubai, United Arab of Emirutes, and Jeddah,...

neuropharmacologic function, but also because they might represent an unrecognized therapeutic problem. With the current tendency to shift patients in and out of institutional settings at frequent intervals, and with neuroleptic drug treatment often paralleling such a cycle, clinicians unwittingly may produce effects resembling those reported here, then treat them by raising the dose or adding ...