the fifth iranian national congress on the biology of addiction was held in 22-24 june 2011 in tehran university of medical sciences with over 100 valuable oral and poster presentations and over 300 participants. one of the main sessions of the congress was devoted to a national strategic planning and iranian drug control head quarter (dchq) introducing the first national executive road map on ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of Internet addiction and to determine the sex differences in the predictive value of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of Internet addiction in adolescents. DESIGN Internet addiction, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, social phobia, and hostility were assessed by self-reported qu...

Professor Otto Lesch, with more than 30 years experience in the field, and his colleagues deal in this book with two substances -alcohol and tobaccoand the many aspects of their use, abuse and addiction: medical, psychiatric, psychological, biological, pharmacological, and sociological. Alcohol and nicotine abuse and addiction usually occur together. Therapeutic pharmacological, psychotherapeut...

objective(s): drug addiction is one of the fastest growing social problems that researchers, for many years, have been trying to find proper strategies for its prevention and treatment. short-term physical activity is considered as acceptable for the treatment and prevention of addiction. on the other hand, prefrontal cortex is known to be responsible for many of the complex behavioral response...

BACKGROUND E-cigarettes are coming into wider use. They are advertised as an aid to smoking cessation, but there is concern that they may also serve as a gateway drug for cigarette smoking. METHOD The authors systematically searched the PubMed database for relevant publications on the mechanism of action of e-cigarettes, the nature of their emissions, their assessment by potential users, thei...

ALTHOUGH 13 MILLION TO 16 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED States each year could benefit from treatment for addiction disorders, less than 25% of them receive it. Negative attitudes of physicians toward diagnosis and treatment of addiction create barriers to their early identification and treatment. In one survey of general practice physicians and nurses, a majority believed that no available medi...