Anger And Self-esteem Amongst Alcohol Addicts And Drug Addicts

[Somatic self mutilation in drug addicts].

Side-bias in alcohol and heroin addicts.

Alcoholics, heroin addicts and normal controls were asked for their degree of preference for the two lateral (left, right) sides during their performance of unilateral activities involving one of the four paired organs, hand, foot, eye and ear. Side-bias was assessed by a questionnaire, with 22 items for hand preference, and five items each for foot, eye and ear preference. Group difference was...

Cerebral edema in drug addicts.

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, ...

Suicidal behavior among drug addicts.

Objective: to describe the profi le of drug addicts attended in a mental health service, the frequency of suicidal behavior among the participants and the associations between these two problems. Method: an exploratory, retrospective and descriptive study based on a quantitative approach, and data collected from medical records of patients with F10-F19 diagnoses according to the ICD-10 treated ...

Viral hepatitis in drug addicts.

Viral hepatitis is an important and frequent complication of drug addiction. The discovery of the Australia antigen and its association with serum hepatitis has provided a number of specific serological tests which may be used for the diagnosis of at least a proportion of patients with hepatitis and also for the detection of carriers of the hepatitis virus. These tests might now be used to stud...