Objective: Food addiction is a behavioral that presents with addictive changes toward high sugar, fat, and highly palatable foods. This study aims to determine the relationship between food personality traits, personal habits, psychiatric symptomatology. Method: In cross-sectional design study, participation of 1500 students studying in Konya Selçuk University Central Campus was planned. A soci...

PURPOSE The findings of previous studies attracted our interest in searching and defining the percentage of deaths from cancer in 'heroin regular addicts' i.e. those who had never stopped taking the drug since they started. METHODS The archives of the Greek Reitox Focal Point of the years 2001 to 2010 were retrospectively searched, focusing on the number of deaths from cancer of the regular h...

Objectives: This study intends to evaluate Marital Adjustment of the addicts in Isfahan NA groups and their couples. Methods: In this cross-sectional analytic-descriptive study, two centers were randomly selected among all of the NA groups in Isfahan in 2012. In the next stage, 40 addicts (both male and female) who were randomly selected from each center as well as their couples were asked t...

It has been noted that many drug addicts relapse to drug use after discharged from successful treatment and rehabilitation programs. Thus it is imperative and timely to address the issues that prompt relapsed addiction. 400 drug addicts on relapse cases were selected from eight drug rehabilitation centres throughout Peninsular Malaysia to examine factors influences the relapsed addiction to dru...


 Objective: To investigate the relationship between social exclusion and relapse tendency of drug addicts, mediating role negative coping style them. Methods: 130 SG addicts were investigated with Social Exclusion Experience Scale, Simple Coping Style Scale (SCSQ) Relapse Tendency (RTQ). Results: (1) styles had significant positive correlation tendency; (2) direct (3) could not only direc...

-The aim of this research was to compare the ego strength of addicted and non addicted people. The sample size of 200 men (100 addicts+ 100 non addicts) living in Karaj and Tehran cities of Islamic Republic of Iran that was selected through the availability sampling. To collect data, a 52-item BESS (Barrons ego strength scale) questionnaire was used. Averages and t test were applied as statisti...

BACKGROUND According to recent theories on addiction, attentional bias towards drug-related stimuli plays a pivotal role in the initiation of drug abuse. OBJECTIVES The present study attempted to investigate attentional bias towards drug-related words in addicts and non-addicts. PATIENTS AND METHODS To attain the objectives, following a causal-comparative study, a number of 15 addicts under...

BACKGROUND Addiction is considered as one of the major problems in family and community in the world. According to cognitive view, organizing the experiences determines how to behave. Due to their importance in interpretation of special situations, cognitive schemas and attributional styles have a significant role in cognitive theories. The aim of this study was to compare early maladaptive sch...