background due to its progressive nature in all aspects of life, addiction endangers the health of individuals, families and the society. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the role of self-regulation and affective control in predicting interpersonal reactivity of drug addicts. materials and methods this research is a correlation study. the statistical population of this stud...

The present study is a comparative study of personality type of alcoholics and drug addicts and personality type of nonalcoholics and non drug addicts. In order to test the hypotheses, samples on addicts and no-addicts are collected from various rehabilitation centres in Mumbai and Pune. Samples were restricted to only male. For the analysis purpose, 2x2 factorial ANOVA and ttest has been used....

conclusions the obtained results showed that hcv infection was an alarming problem among opiate users in the eastern part of turkey. it is suggested to rapidly diagnose the infected persons; thus preventive measures and appropriate control may limit further transmission of these infections. background hepatitis b, hepatitis c and hiv infections constitute serious healthcare problems worldwide. ...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV infections constitute serious healthcare problems worldwide. OBJECTIVES There are a limited number of studies regarding the prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV infections among the drug addicts in Turkey; hence, the current study aimed to determine the frequency of these infections among 235 drug addicts treated in a drug addiction treatm...

BACKGROUND Drug abuse is on the rise. Drug addiction lowers the general immunity of the body. Tuberculosis is known to be one of the major infectious diseases with a high incidence among drug addicts. Treatment of drug addicts suffering from tuberculosis is a challenge to the treating physician. METHODS An interventional prospective study which involved free de-addiction drugs and motivation ...

We test the hypothesis that the treatment of drug addicts reduces consumption of hard drugs by comparing the change in drug consumption of treated addicts before and after treatment with the change in drug consumption with demographically similar untreated addicts. If treated drug addicts are positively self-selected, naïve treatment evaluations that ignore self-selectivity into treatment will ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the nutritional status of drug addicts, the prevalence of malnutrition among them and the influence of their drug habit and lifestyle factors on their nutritional indices. The study was conducted among 253 male drug addicts, who sought detoxification at the Central Drug Addiction Treatment Hospital, Dhaka, during the period of June 1998-July 1999....

BACKGROUND One of the most important factors in drug abuse and drug avoidance is family and its function. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare family function and quality of life dimensions among Amphetamine addicts and non-addicts. MATERIALS AND METHODS The current study is a case-control, which assessed 95 Iranian addicts and 95 non-addicts. Sampling method in the addicts group was rand...

BACKGROUND/AIM The effect of drugs leaves permanent consequences on the brain, organic in type, followed by numerous manifestations, and it significantly affects the development of mental dysfunctions. The clinicians are often given a task to estimate a patient's personality during treatment or during experts estimate of a drug addict. The aim of this research was to determine the differences, ...