Currently, the drug addiction literature is replete with micro-level theories of addiction that offer important insights into individual and small-group processes leading to addiction. However, few offer much consideration of macro-level matters (e.g., social structural and cultural). Macro theories of addiction are even more scarce. This inattention to macro-level factors may ultimately impede...

The Internet started as a divine gift to the human society, it was meant to enlighten the human society by transferring knowledge, making available all the information needed for human well being, growth and prosperity. But as the Internet grew, it created its own set of problems—one of the key ones being Internet Addiction. According to Dr. Jerald J. Block, from the Center for Internet Addicti...

* Corresponding Author: Hamed Ekhtiari, MD Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tel/Fax: 0098-21-55421177 E-mail: [email protected] Seyyed-Ehsan Parhizgar , Hamed Ekhtiari 1*

Most codes of research ethics and the practice of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) allow human subjects to withdraw from research at any time. Consent forms invariably make a statement to this effect. So understood, a subject's right to withdraw from research is inalienable; she cannot, through her consent, surrender this right. Recently critics have argued that in selected circumstances the ...

This study aims to find out how use social media as a means of marketing communication for Femiaura Beauty increase brand addiction, especially in the Tangerang Serpong area. The research method used is qualitative with observation and interviews. interviews conducted were validated using triangulation data sources. Respondents this owners Beauty, 3 employees 7 customers Beauty. collected analy...

background: drug addiction is one of the social health problems at the present century. the high risk sexual behaviors as well as drug abusing are factors of sexually transmitted infections. this study aimed to determine the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and high risk behaviors among women who have referred to a de-addiction center. methods: in this descriptive study, 76 women w...

Objective: Our research classified variables associated with internet addiction and examined their relations such addiction. study aim was to reveal how that may have separate effects on predict as an integral whole. The emerge are important in terms of determining the profiles internet-addicted individuals use additional indicators Materials Methods: designed a cross-sectional survey. data wer...

We have investigated biases in physicians' decisions regarding the form of life support to withdraw from critically ill patients in whom the decision to withdraw has already been made. Using a specially designed instrument that solicited both self-reported preferences and also responses to experimentally varied clinical vignettes, we surveyed 862 American internists, of whom 481 (56%) responded...

An anonymous bidding protocol without any reliable center for a small community is proposed. The anonymity of a bidding protocol means that the participation of everyone involved in the bidding except for the successful bidder is kept secret. Since it is hard for a small community to establish a reliable center owing to the difficulty and cost of doing so, an anonymous bidding protocol without ...