AbstractPlacement in medical rehabilitation and / or social institutions for Narcotics Addicts Abuse victims is not only done voluntarily through a legal process after verdict ruling by judge. Rehabilitation can also be carried out during the judicial process, namely from of investigation, prosecution trial based on Government Regulation Number 25 2011 concerning Implementation Mandatory Report...

We propose a model of addiction based on three premises: (i) use among addicts is frequently a mistake; (ii) experience sensitizes an individual to environmental cues that trigger mistaken usage; (iii) addicts understand and manage their susceptibilities. We argue that these premises find support in evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice. The model is tractable and genera...

The sexual addiction model enables physicians to understand the self-destructive behavior of patients whose actions may otherwise appear inexplicable. When a person is preoccupied with sex and continues to engage in compulsive sexual activity despite adverse consequences (eg, loss of marriage, job, health, freedom), he or she is a sex addict. Treatment allows sex addicts to stop their compulsiv...

We have been studying heroin addicts in their natural setting in an effort to understand the factors contributing to the spread and maintenance of this disorder. In previous studies (Hughes, Crawford, and Barker, 1971; Hughes and Jaffe, 1971) 'we reported that (1) the majority of active street addicts in our urban area appeared to be organized for purposes of heroin distribution into neighborho...

Introduction: Drug abuse is a public health problem around the globe. Its implications in human are harmful, compromising nutritional status. It has been shown that malnutrition moderately prevalent drug addicts, and prescription significantly beneficial for these patients. Available literature suggests altered blood serum biochemical data addicts. Our study focused on biomarkers addicts who di...

Acquired nosocomial infections include all clinical that the patient does not have at time of admission to hospital and hours after admission, patient's natural flora acquires characteristics become source bacterial for himself. Nosocomial dramatically cause illness death impose high costs on hospitalized patient. Hence, this study tends compare prevalence in opium consumers healthy patients ad...

Self administered questionnaires completed by 69 out of 100 consecutive drug addicts attending two drug dependence clinics suggested that some private general practitioners were easily persuaded to prescribe controlled drugs. These drugs were usually methadone, dipipanone-cyclizine (Diconal), and methylphenidate (Ritalin). Numbers of new narcotic addicts notified to the Home Office confirmed th...

My first encounter and only personal experience with heroin took place in 1966, when I was living in London. What everybody knows about the British and heroin is that they supply it on prescription to heroin addicts. But my first sight of the drug seemed to have nothing to do with addicts. My elder daughter, then seven, had caught a cold and developed a hacking cough. The doctor listened at her...

background: to measure suspected abuse of the methamphetamine (ma) among methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) patients in tehran, we studied all 206 patients who were admitted to mmt program from 2009 to 2015 to andishe-no addiction treatment clinic.  methods: ma presence was screened in one of the random urine samples routinely taken for tests of other drugs.  results: 70 (34.3%) patients wer...