This study reviews opiates (endorphin agonists) in treatment of pain and addiction with specific focus on their addictive potential versus benefits. This review suggests endorphin agonists enjoy mood stabilizing and antidepressant properties and have been helpful in treatment of pain, mood and addictive disorders. The evidence is consistent with the observation that slow release opiate preparat...

Black widow spider envenomation (BWSE) is commonly associated with severe abdominal pain, muscle cramping, and hypertension. Treatment is primarily symptomatic with the use of opiates and benzodiazepines. Priapism is a complication of BWSE that has only rarely been reported. We describe a 17-month-old male who developed priapism after known BWSE. His priapism did not respond to opiates or benzo...

In this article, we propose a discrete mathematical model which describes the propagation of drug phenomenon in human population. The population is unscrewed five compartments: "S" People likely to become addicts, "M" Moderate "H" Heavy "T" receiving addiction treatment, "R" recovered people who have completely abstained from addiction. Our goal find better strategy reduce number heavy addicts ...

BACKGROUND Ischemic stroke is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Various studies on the etiology of this disease are in progress. Some studies have suggested that opium abuse may is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke. The present study aimed to analyze the frequency of opium addiction and to compare cerebrovascular ultrasound patients' changes to non-addicts. M...

The aim of this study was to compare investigators' perception of three most important etiological factors for drug addiction and drug abuse with the self-perception of heroin addicts and drug abusers who used cannabis products and/or ecstasy. The study included 207 heroin addicts (mean age, 26.7 +/- 5.8 years) and 238 drug abusers (mean age, 19.3 +/- 1.9 years). Each study participant selected...

OBJECTIVE To develop a scale in order to investigate the severity of inhalant use in adolescents and to conduct reliability and validity studies of this scale. METHOD A questionnaire was developed by conducting interviews with two groups: professionals working with adolescent inhalant users and inhalant-using adolescents. This questionnaire was developed into a 21-item scale. This was applied...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com J Psychol Clin Psychiatry 2015, 3(4): 00144 death [1]. There have been several recent publications consistent with premature deaths associated with discontinuation of opiates independent of withdrawal induced adverse events [2-4]. There is also compelling neuro imaging evidence of brain atrophy associated with chronic pain and depression [5-6]. A nu...