The rise and popularity of computer games as a leisure phenomenon has become an ever-increasing part of many young people’s day-to-day lives. Coupled with the rise in popularity and usage, there have been a growing number of reports in the popular press about excessive use of the video games (‘‘joystick junkies’’). Although the concept of ‘‘video game addiction’’ appears to have its supporters ...

AIMS Recent research has suggested that for some individuals, educational studying may become compulsive and excessive and lead to 'study addiction'. The present study conceptualized and assessed study addiction within the framework of workaholism, defining it as compulsive over-involvement in studying that interferes with functioning in other domains and that is detrimental for individuals and...

BACKGROUND A relapse prevention program called the Information Technology Aided Relapse Prevention Programme in Schizophrenia (ITAREPS) has been developed and is reported to be highly effective. However the effectiveness was influenced by user adherence to the protocol of the program, the exact effectiveness and the role of the ITAREPS have been partially uncertain. OBJECTIVE The purpose of t...

the aim of this study was examination the relationship between mindfulness and drug craving in addicts undergoing methadone maintenance treatment.the subjects of this research were 80 addicts undergoing methadone maintenance treatment selected through available sampling from four addiction treatment center in ahvaz from march 2012 to september 2012. two questionnaires to examine the variables o...

The past two decades have brought new pharmacotherapies as well as behavioral therapies to the field of drug-addiction treatment (Carroll & Onken, 2005; Carroll, 2005; Ling & Smith, 2002; Fiellin, Kleber, Trumble-Hejduk, McLellan, & Kosten, 2004). Despite this progress, the treatment of addiction in clinical practice often remains a matter of trial and error. Some reasons for this difficulty ar...

Drug addiction is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder that affects a subset of the individuals who take drugs. It is characterized by maladaptive drug-seeking habits that are maintained despite adverse consequences and intense drug craving. The pathophysiology and etiology of addiction is only partially understood despite extensive research because of the gap between current preclinical models ...

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to determine the individual characteristics of clients who were referred to residential rehabilitation centers for drug use disorders and to determine their relapse-related factors. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 576 patients who were referred to nine residential treatment centers for drug use disorders, chosen by the cluster sampling m...

Used appropriately, quantitative levels can address research hypotheses and clinical issues that are otherwise untested by traditional qualitative urine results. Quantitative urine levels can provide new information in health services research, pharmacotherapy trials, studies of the interaction of cigarette smoking and substance abuse, additional studies of polysubstance abuse, and the linking ...

In this issue of Neuron, Borgland et al. report that the arousal-associated peptide orexin enhances LTP-like changes in glutamatergic excitability of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. This parallels a similar effect of corticotropin-releasing factor and suggests a form of neuroadaptation that increases the likelihood of addiction relapse.