Toshihiko Matsumoto, MD, PhD,* Hisateru Tachimori, PhD, Ayumi Takano, MS, Yuko Tanibuchi, MD, PhD, Daisuke Funada, MD and Kiyoshi Wada, MD, PhD Departments of Drug Dependence Research, Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Graduate School of Med...

Although anthropologists have paid little attention to popular American psychological discourse about addiction and recovery, the cultural politics of its engagement by Native North American communities warrant closer examination. By ethnographically contextualizing personal narratives, this paper describes how addiction/recovery discourse has been selectively engaged by younger generations of ...

Title: Known and Novel Sources of Variability in the Nicotine Metabolite Ratio in a Large Sample of Treatment-Seeking Smokers Authors: Meghan J. Chenoweth, Maria Novalen, Larry W. Hawk Jr., Robert A. Schnoll, Tony P. George, Paul M. Cinciripini, Caryn Lerman, and Rachel F. Tyndale Affiliations: Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toro...

Past research predicts that males will be more likely to withdraw in one-on-one interactions versus groups, whereas females will be more likely to withdraw in groups than in one-on-one interactions. Ninety-eight 10-year-old children engaged in a word generation task either in same-sex dyads or in groups. Boys completed significantly more words in groups than in dyads, whereas girls' performance...

the tenth issue of our addiction journal (former version of pjam) was ready to be published in summer 2010, but some discussions regarding the journal at the national center for addiction studies created a disturbing atmosphere for members of the editorial office. as if there were no hopes in continuing to run this three year old journal. currently in 2013, after three years of hard efforts, th...

introduction : drug addiction and drug dependency are major problem in the “mental”,”social”, and “health-care” fields. it decreases occupational performance and educational abilities in different social groups, and may lead to miscellaneous crimes. different methods are recommended for drug addiction treatments. detoxification is the first step however it would not be successful without follow...

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan Medical School, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, IR Iran Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Sari, IR Iran Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sc...

From the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center; and the Youth Alcohol Prevention Center and the Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health — both in Boston. Address reprint requests to Dr. Saitz at Boston Medical Center, 91 E. C...