This research looks into the relationship between depression and the approach by Tehran high school students towards drug abuse. For this purpose, by using the correlation research method, 195 students from the first, second and third grades of high school were selected through the multi-stage cluster sample-taking method and were later evaluated through the Beck depression test and the drug ab...

Background and purpose: Çancer patients are usually suffering from severe pain and disrupted life style and using a proper analgesic seems to be the best option. Pain management failure or improper dosages of analgesics may lead to drug abuse or substance dependency in cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of drug abuse and substance dependency among cance...

Drug dependence is a prominent issue in individuals of different professions, education levels, and socioeconomic classes. Authors of this paper, including the first author (as a qualified clinical nurse and nursing supervisor), aimed to address the challenges associated with substance abuse and the subsequent failure in interactions between healthcare personnel and patients referring to clinic...

Introduction & Objective: Drug abuse is one of the complicated phenomenons in the human communities that it produces health problems.  The effect of applying fear appeal message on attitudes and intention against drug abuse, drug resistance skills, knowledge about side effect of drugs and drug abuse related behaviors among male high school students was studied based on applying extended paralle...

 The present research investigates the relationship between family factors and the students' attitude towards drugs. 863 (male and female) secondary school students were selected through randomized cluster sampling. They responded to the "Attitude towards Drugs Questionnaire" and "Family Factors Scale". The obtained data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U tests and Spearman's correlation co...