OBJECTIVE The present study examined the impact of a telephonic patient support program known as HereToHelp™ (HTH) on compliance and treatment outcomes among opioid dependent (OD) patients new to buprenorphine treatment (BUP). METHOD A total of 1426 OD patients new to BUP were randomized to receive BUP alone (standard care) or BUP plus the HTH patient support program. All patients completed t...

objective: addiction is one of the most vulnerable social issues and the tendency to it involve several factors, including psychosocial stressors (life unpleasant events), and inability to deal with these stressors and the belief that drug use will lead to the desired result. this study was conducted to determine the relationship between psychosocial stressors and vulnerability to drug abuse am...

Figure 2 Also from the initial interrogation of device. Note the date of SureScan on and off, 16-Jan-1996 (underlined in red), and the evidence of pacer dependence, with 499.9% ventricular pacing. Introduction Patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices were historically unable to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In 2011 the Food and Drug Administration approved the first MRI ...

This paper briefly reviews the evolution of opioid addiction treatment from humanitarian to scientific and evidence-based, the evidence bases supporting major medication-assisted treatments and adjunctive psychosocial techniques, as well as challenges faced by clinicians and treatment providers seeking to provide those treatments. Attitudes, politics, policy, and financial issues are discussed.

human soul is an immobile variable (mojarrad) that at the same time posses the feature of movement (or flux) in its essence. the commonest proof for denying motion in incorporeal beings is the “argument of potentiality and actuality”, that as we all know is an invalid argument. invalidity of this argument is for impossibility of containing simultaneously both deficiency (potentiality) and suffi...

background: given the high prevalence of addiction in iran and its social and health problems, addiction is considered as one of the few national health priority. this study compared the views of addicts and their families about the causes of drug abuse that referred to addiction centers in khorramabad, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on addicts and their families who re...

The phytoremediation potentiality of Cyperus articulatus naturally growing in industrial wastewater was tested. Nine heavy metals were selected for this purpose; As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni and Pb. Metal concentrations were measured using the atomic absorption. The accumulation rates of the studied heavy metals showed considerable variations in the accumulation abilities according to the pla...

Creativity is thought to involve searching and selecting amongst multiple discrete idea candidates. Honing theory predicts that it involves actualizing the potentiality of as few as a single ill-defined idea by viewing it from different contexts. This paper reports on a study that tests between these theories. Participants were invited to “Create a painting that expresses yourself in any style ...