BACKGROUND Measurement of life quality as an index of health status has a widespread application in health care domain. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to determine the quality of life of referents to addiction cessation centers of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 988 addicts who had referred to addiction cessation centers in Shahroud were studied through SF-36 q...

This paper studies polydrug use patterns in heroin and cocaine addicts. We use data on two experiments to measure the elasticity of several addictive drugs with respect to heroin and cocaine prices. Own and cross price elasticities are estimated while controlling for non-price related sources of variance. The results indicate that heroin addicts have an inelastic demand for heroin, complement h...

BACKGROUND Due to its progressive nature in all aspects of life, addiction endangers the health of individuals, families and the society. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the role of self-regulation and affective control in predicting interpersonal reactivity of drug addicts. MATERIALS AND METHODS This research is a correlation study. The statistical population of this ...

There are a few studies with conflicting results on the effects of opioids on the functioning of immune system. This study was performed to investigate the in vitro production of interferon-gamma and interleukin-10 after antigenic stimulation of cells using whole blood from opioid addicts. Blood samples were taken from 20 chronically opioid-addicted persons, who voluntarily enrolled for detoxif...

Essential practice points from this article Part I of this article ( issue 4) identified the things drug users and others do or don’t do which affect the risk of overdose, and the influences which make these behaviours more or less likely. Key conclusion: overdose deaths are avoidable: rarely is taking heroin or taking a high dose the sole cause. Other factors turn potential risk into reality, ...

The discovery of endogenous opiates in 1975 (1) generated considerable research concerning the effects of exercise on the release of these peptides, particularly on -endorphin, which represents the main focus of this chapter. Previous research considered changes in peripheral blood concentrations induced by different modes of physical activity, influences of training status on the secretion of ...

results result shows that there is a significant difference between methamphetamine addicts and narcotics addicts and non-addicts in self-regulation and affective control (p = 0.001). conclusions this finding indicates that low self-regulation and affective control is a risky factor in psychoactive drugs abuse. materials and methods in this causative-comparative study, 80 addicts (40 methamphet...

The drug abuse monitoring study of Regional Medical Research Center, Dibrugarh, reported 181 and 395 addicts from the states of Assam and Nagaland respectively in one year. Of these, 48 (26.5%) and 49(12.4%) cases were contributed by the primary abuse of codeine containing cough syrups. A11 addicts were males in their early twenties. Most of the addicts were unmarried and educated up to matricu...

Managing pain in patients with heroin addiction is challenging, because most pain medications are addictive. A promising way to relieve pain of heroin addicts is to identify and address modifiable psychosocial factors associated with pain. This study examined the association between loneliness and pain intensity in Chinese heroin addicts receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). A consec...