The focus of this investigation was the relationship between anxiety disorders and lifetime use of amphetamines, cocaine, hallucinogens and heroin in two contemporaneous samples. Data from two independent community surveys conducted in the US (N=5877) and Ontario (N=8116) were used to assess whether a lifetime anxiety disorder diagnosis (social phobia, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phob...

background adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) increases the risk of several psychiatric disorders, like substance use disorders (suds). objectives this study aimed to predict the tendency for drug use from child and adult adhd symptoms in adults among male students from tabriz university, iran. patients and methods for this purpose, 361 students were selected via a stratified...

AIMS The aims were to (1) estimate the prevalence of alcohol and drug use disorders in prisoners on reception to prison and (2) estimate and test sources of between study heterogeneity. METHODS Studies reporting the 12-month prevalence of alcohol and drug use disorders in prisoners on reception to prison from 1 January 1966 to 11 August 2015 were identified from seven bibliographic indexes. P...

BACKGROUND Little is known about gender difference in correlates of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) among drug users. OBJECTIVE To detect gender difference in correlates of ASPD in a Chinese heroin dependent sample. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted among 882 heroin dependent users in two compulsory isolation settings in Changsha, China. Descriptive statistics were employe...

INTRODUCTION Despite being frequently diagnosed, there has been very limited study of efficacious treatments for schizoaffective disorder. Paliperidone had been approved for the treatment of schizoaffective disorder, and a recently completed relapse prevention study of the use of a once-monthly injectable paliperidone formulation has also led to an indication for that preparation to treat schiz...

According to the 2015 National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) [1], when interviewed about their drug use during the past year, 0.4% (155,000) women between the ages of 18 to 25 identified having a heroin use disorder. These findings are similar to data reported from 2008-2014. Other NSDUH findings report that 1.2% (427,000) women age 18-25 identified an opioid prescription drug use disor...

Introduction: The Diversion Alert Program (DAP) was established to curb misuse of drugs and help identify people who may need treatment for substance use disorder (SUD). Law enforcement compiled arrest data into a database accessible by health care providers. Our objectives were regional demographic differences in drug Maine.