A century ago, the Chinese opium epidemic spurred international action on drug control as policymakers realized that the problem was too complex for any one country to tackle in isolation. Starting with the International Opium Commission (Shanghai, 1909), Governments over time established an international consensus on the need for the regulation of psychoactive substances. Moreover, a set of no...

Objective: Self-harm was classified to show forms like non-suicidal self injury and indirect risky behaviors and drug abuse. The aims of this study were to compare suicidal tendencies indexes and difficulty in emotion regulation skills in mixed groups of adolescents with direct and indirect forms of self-harm. Methods: In a casual-comparative design from population of delinquent adolescents ...

The adenoviral type 5 E1A protein has been shown to induce sensitization to different categories of anticancer drug-induced apoptosis, partly by down-regulation of the activity of a critical oncogenic kinase Akt in both normal fibroblasts and epithelial breast cancer cells. Currently, the adenoviral E1A gene is being tested as an antitumor gene in multiple clinical trials. However, molecular me...

BACKGROUND Emotion regulation appears to provide individuals with a doubled ability to avoid drug relapse and assists with the control of temptation to reuse, which is a type of tendency-avoidance conflict. The present study aims to investigate the effect of Gross model-based emotion regulation training on the reduction of craving beliefs in drug-addicted people. METHODS The present study was...