Few studies have examined associations between the availability of smoking cessation services in addiction treatment organizations and specific cultural, staffing, and resource barriers. Telephone interviews were conducted with administrators of 897 addiction treatment organizations in the United States. These data revealed that few programs had adopted the full bundle of five recommended tobac...

Received: 28 March 2012 First Revision: 25 April 2012 Accepted: 25 July 2012 Ali Yoonessi1,3, Mojtaba Hajihasani4, Shahriar Gharibzadeh4, Mohammadreza Zarrindast1,3, Ahmad Yoonessi5 1. School Of Advanced Medical Technologies, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. Eye Research Center, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Iranian National Center For Addiction ...

the effects of methamphetamine on the patients and their families in addiction treatment centers in tehran, 1391     azizi h [1] , saboory e [2] *, ghaderi s [3] , seyyedhoseinalagheband a [4]     received: 25 aug , 2013 accepted: 28 oct , 2013  abstract  background & aims : this study investigated the effects of methamphetamine (ma) on the patients admitted to addiction treatment centers in te...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed at investigating the role of depression and attachment styles in predicting cell phone addiction. METHODS In this descriptive correlational study, a sample including 100 students of Payame Noor University (PNU), Reyneh Center, Iran, in the academic year of 2013-2014 was selected using volunteer sampling. Participants were asked to complete the adult attachme...

B. Bie,1 H. L. Fields,2 J. T. Williams,3 and Z. Z. Pan1 1Departments of Symptom Research and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, 2Departments of Neurology and Physiology and the Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, and 3Vollum Institute, O...

Research over the last decade has identified Internet addiction as a new and often unrecognized clinical disorder that impact a user's ability to control online use to the extent that it can cause relational, occupational, and social problems. While much of the literature explores the psychological and social factors underlying Internet addiction, little if any empirical evidence exists that ex...

F m ORTLAND, Maine Mark Publicker's ^ affinity for Catholic health care was evident when talking with him at his office at the Mercy Recovery Center on a recent January morning. He shared the story of Sr. Ignatia Gavin, who was responsible for making St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, the first hospital in the world to treat alcoholism as a medical condition in 1935, and for incorporating Alco...

The demand/withdraw interaction pattern is a destructive cycle of relationship communication behavior that is associated with negative individual and relationship outcomes. Demand/withdraw behavior is thought to be strongly linked to partners' emotional reactions, but current theories are inconsistent with empirical findings. The current study proposes the interpersonal process model of demand/...