objective: the current research is to investigate the relation between deterministic thinking and mental health among drug abusers, in which the role of  cognitive distortions is considered and clarified by focusing on deterministic thinking. methods: the present study is descriptive and correlative. all individuals with experience of drug abuse who had been referred to the shafagh rehabilitati...

Twenty-seven patients who were attending Cherry Orchard and the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals who presented in the six months from July, 1981, with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive hepatitis and who denied parenteral drug abuse, were studied. Twenty-two male and six female HBsAg positive parenteral drug abusers from the same period of the epidemic were used for serological co...

Arterial complications from inadvertent arterial puncture in intravenous drug abusers are well recognised. Most reports describe injury to the femoral artery with occasional reports of brachial and radial artery injury. A case of subclavian artery injury is described in this paper, and the pathophysiology and treatment of intraarterial drug injection discussed.

BACKGROUND Individual and sociocultural factors may pose significant barriers for drug abusers seeking treatment, particularly for African-American crack cocaine abusers. However, there is evidence that pretreatment interventions may reduce treatment initiation barriers. This study examined the effects of a pretreatment intervention designed to enhance treatment motivation, decrease crack use, ...