Crosstalk between Sleep Disturbance and Opioid Use Disorder: A Narrative Review

Sleep and Combat Readiness: Narrative Review

Although adequate sleep is an important factor in daily performance and health of all civilians, with regard to nature of their job, military forces are prone to sleep disorders and insomnia and low sleep quality are common problem in military. Combat readiness is a broad concept and is influenced by several factors such as infrastructures and equipment, supporting agents and the quality of the...

The relationship between sleep disturbance and depression: A review

Non-Medical Prescription Opioid Use and Prescription Opioid Use Disorder: A Review

Over the past few decades, there has been a rise in the non-medical use of prescription opioids, which has now reached epidemic proportions in the United States. In some cases, this non-medical use progresses to prescription opioid use disorder, heroin use, injection, and inhalation drug use, all of which may have further devastating consequences. The purpose of this review article is to discus...

Aircraft Noise and Sleep Disturbance: A Review

Opioid use disorder and dissociation

This essay explores the inter-relationship between addiction to narcotics and dissociation. The focal premise is that drug use disorder, particularly opioid use disorder (OUD), is a condition driven by the need to chemically induce a state that mimics psychogenic dissociation. In other words, some individuals suffering from OUD are motivated to chemically induce a dissociative state to defend t...

P75: A Study of Perfectionism, Anxiety Sensitivity and Sleep Disturbance in the Generalizing Anxiety Disorder and Normal People

Perfectionism, anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance are among the main causes of generalizing anxiety disorder. This study aims to compare perfectionism, anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance between patients with generalizing anxiety disorder (GAD) and control group. The present study was a cross-sectional and ex-post facto investigation (causal comparative method). Statistical univer...