drug abuse and its crimes is one of the biggest problems in all countries, including iran. according to available statistics more than half of the prisoners in connection with drug remain in jail as increasing numbers of addicts and various anomalies of addiction in the community marker lack of effectiveness of the preventive measures taken in the country. accordingly, given the need to determi...

the youth trend factors addiction to drugs was the purpose of this research. in the other words, it is attempted to answer to essential question what factors are caused to the addiction in the youth? to reach to answer the above question, it is used mainly from four theoretical perspectives namely anomaly theory, isolationism theory, labeling theory and sutherland learning theory. the independe...

this study took an epidemiological approach toward the problem of drug addiction in tehran. the subjects were 300 addicts chosen on the basis of stratified random selection out of the population of 3627 prisoners who were all proven addicts and sentenced to imprisonment by the court in the year 1370. a descriptive survey showed that drug addiction generally, and heroin addiction specifically, i...

conclusions in psychoactive substance dependents, serum routine biochemistry parameters can be used to predict the need for intensive monitoring and treatment programs. results there was a statistically significant difference in the gamma-glutamyl transferase (ggt), uric acid, creatinine, urea, albumin, aspartate aminotransferase (ast) medians between the dependent and control groups (p < 0.05)...

Study Aims. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the medication-assisted therapy (MAT) pilot in Kazakhstan and review implementation context and related challenges. Methods. We performed a desk review of MAT policy and program documents and reviewed medical records at three MAT sites in Kazakhstan. MAT patients (n = 93) were interviewed to assess their perceptions of the program and its im...

In the description of parental psychopathology in narcotic dependence, emphasis has hitherto largely lain on the identification of addictogenic characteristics rather than on the identification of psychological distress. In an attempt to remedy the situation, we compared the parents of 21 male narcotic dependant patients with an equal number of matched controls. Using the General Health Questio...