results patients reported that their use of methamphetamine was motivated by methadone’s side effects and encouraged by family and friends who promoted methamphetamine use to assuage the side effects of methadone in the early stages of treatment before the appearance of methadone maintenance therapy’s effects on their life. patients and methods to gain a better understanding of patients’ motiva...

objective: previous suicide interventional studies are controversial in their results. the present study compared brief intervention and contact (bic), with treatment as usual (tau) in their influence on the repetition of suicide attempts 6-month after the index suicide attempt. methods: adults who had attempted suicide were assigned two groups randomly: 311 in the tau and 321 in the bic. the b...

This article discusses 3 different strategies for dealing with the harmful consequences of drug use and other risky behaviors: We can discourage people from engaging in the behavior (prevalence reduction), we can encourage people to reduce the frequency or extent of the behavior (quantity reduction), or we can try to reduce the harmful consequences of the behavior when it occurs (harm reduction...

extractit is in holy koran that one, who saves life of an individual from death, is likely to have saved all human beings. this sentence there is in mosaic law and probably in bible. on the other hand according to imman khomaini, if a doctor do harm for a patient, she/he is responsible, even if she/he has legal authorization. however sometime some physicians do mistakes which are opposite to me...

Medication errors (MEs) are preventable events that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use patient harm. Annually 98,000 patients die because of avoidable MEs, and it is considered a financial burden on public health organizations. The purpose our study was examine the incidence rate, types, causes errors. We conducted prospective, descriptive from 1st November 2018 March 2019 at Moh...

Background: Given that a significant part of deaths due to traffic accidents are preventable in the prehospital phase, so it seems necessary to have an instrument to identify and measure the factors affecting it. This study aimed to develop and psychometrically assess an instrument for measuring preventable prehospital mortality due to traffic accidents. Methods: The study is a mixed qualitati...

Starting in the 1970s and leading up to the present day, William Miller and his colleagues have been collecting experimental data about a moderate drinking intervention called Behavioral Self Control Training (BSCT) which has given us a lot of interesting data about who succeeds with a moderate drinking goal, who succeeds with an abstinence goal, who achieves a harm reduction goal, and who fail...