BACKGROUND Substance abuse is one of the main health problems in Iran andawareness about its spread and procedure of spread in the society,particularly the susceptible society of students, is very important withregard to the population pyramid of Iran. METHODS This study was performed by cross-sectional method. The sampling sizewas 610 male students in pre-university grade by a probabilistic ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the awareness and perception of students attending professional medicine, law and business schools regarding recreational use of cannabis. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted between June 2010 and November 2010. Using convenience sampling, 150 students from medical, business and law schools from both private and public sectors were enrolled. Government institut...

Neutral cannabinoids with a pentyl side chain— for example, cannabidiol, tetrahydrocannabinol, and cannabinol— are générally accompanied by homologs with a propyl side chain, of which at least one has psychotropic activity. Samples of hashish and marihuana from Asia especially sometimes have abundant amounts of propyl cannabinoids, the quantities being of the same order as that of the accompany...

Neutral cannabinoids with a pentyl side chain— for example, cannabidiol, tetrahydrocannabinol, and cannabinol— are générally accompanied by homologs with a propyl side chain, of which at least one has psychotropic activity. Samples of hashish and marihuana from Asia especially sometimes have abundant amounts of propyl cannabinoids, the quantities being of the same order as that of the accompany...

starting in 1990 many programs were initiated to prevent and control the spread of hiv/aids in prisons in accordance with the policies of the ministry of health. this study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of harm reduction programs vis-à-vis drug abuse and dependency in 7 prisons in iran.the methodology used is before-after testing and the sample population is incarcerated prisoners in 7...

In order to assess the current knowledge on the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids, a meta-analysis was performed through Medline and PubMed up to July 1, 2005. The key words used were cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hashish, hashich, haschich, cannabinoids, tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, dronabinol, nabilone, levonantradol, randomised, randomized, double-blind, simple blind, placebo-controlled,...

reserve is no sign of other-wordliness, for Rosenthal has never been one to shrink from difficult topics or from illuminating present concerns with light from the past. His book on hashish (1971), and his study here of passive male homosexuality, treat with tact and erudition topics that might, in others' hands, have degenerated into sensationalism or propaganda. As well as an index and a selec...

Copyright © 2013, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There is a close relationship between drug abuse and crime. Drug abusers commit crime...