Drug abuse is a major health problem for minority populations in the United States. Data show that drug abuse has disproportionately severe consequences for minority populations in comparison to the white population in that they have higher morbidity and mortality from drug-related causes and are less likely to receive adequate treatment. For example, data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (D...

results addiction potential was positively related to personality characteristics. we found that those with the highest addiction potential (47%) exhibited the following 3 traits: char­acteristics of schizophrenia, psychological exhaustion, and depression. conclusions there were no significant differences in the addiction potential among the students with respect to grade, field of study, age, ...

in the 1960s, discovery of pleasure system (defined as reward system) in the brain that may underlie drug reward and addiction encouraged many scientists to investigate the mechanisms by which drug abuse affects central nervous system function. in this regard, investigators developed several drugs targeting the brain reward system for drug dependence therapy. however, no positive results obtain...

objective: personality is the most important infrastructure factor in addiction, and substance abusers have certain personal weaknesses that make them vulnerable to addiction. this study examined the role of sensation-seeking and coping strategies in predicting drug addiction in high school students.  methods: this study is a descriptive–correlational research. multi-stage cluster sampling was ...

drug addiction is a major social, economic, and hygienic challenge that impacts on all the community and needs serious threat. available treatments are successful only in short-term unless underlying reasons making individuals prone to the phenomenon are not investigated. nowadays, there are some treatment centers which have comprehensive information about addicted people. therefore, given the ...

Objective: The present research aimed to examine positive and negative beliefs about worry and tendency of students to drug abuse in terms of cross-level effect of school-bounding. Methods: In this multi-level investigation, 1000 students of high schools were selected by means of multi-stage sampling technique. Then, they completed metacognitive questionnaire (MCQ), school-bound...