Objective: To summarize results of studies that estimate the social costs of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug abuse in Russia. The purpose of these studies was to inform policymakers about the real economic burden of risky behaviors and to provide conditions for evidencebased and well-informed decision making in this area. Methods: The cost-of-illness method was applied to estimate the social...

Abuse by burning is estimated to occur in 1 to 25% of children admitted with burn injuries annually. Hair and urine toxicology for illicit drug exposure may provide additional confirmatory evidence for abuse. To determine the impact of hair and urine toxicology on the identification of child abuse, we performed a retrospective chart review of all pediatric patients admitted to our burn unit. Th...

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), known as ecstasy, is a hallucinogen and stimulant illicit drug. Besides the systemic effects of this drug are well documented, it can also present with range oral side such ulcerations, to our knowledge, there only few cases involving mucosal ulcerations related MDMA abuse in literature. We encountered 38-year-old man widespread multiple attributed abus...

BACKGROUND While substance abuse among psychiatric patients is a widely known problem in clinical practice, there is no local study about prevalence and co-occurrence of substance abuse in north of Iran. OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to determine the frequency of smoking, alcohol, opioid and cannabinoid substances, and prescription medicines abuse or dependence among Psychiatric I...

BACKGROUND Previous research has demonstrated genetic and environmental influences on abuse of individual substances, but there is less known about how these factors may influence the co-occurrence of abuse of different illicit drugs. METHODS We studied 3372 male twin pairs from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry. They were interviewed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, Version III, Revised ...

Historically, alcohol and tobacco use has been the main substance for Pacific people in New Zealand (NZ).1,2,3 However, more recently, illicit drug is a new emerging concerning trend amongst Zealand. Illicit drugs refer to highly addictive illegal substances such as cannabis, synthetic cannabinoids, heroin, marijuana methamphetamine. Importantly, youth have identified having higher prevalence r...

drug abuse in pregnancy is not uncommon, and the use of illicit opioids during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes. the aim of the study was to assess neonatal outcome of pregnancy with maternal addiction. materials and methods:   in this cohort study we assessed 100 pregnant women 15 -49 years old. to identify drug exposure was used self- questionnaire (self-repo...

The abuse of psychotropic drugs and addiction to them is an undeniable health issue. Based on United Nation reports, 185 million individuals across the globe are afflicted with illicit drug abuse. Considering the 2 billion alcohol consumers and at least one billion cigarette smokers, the need to conduct further studies and designing more effective treatments is even more apparent and considered...

ôbjective: ço-morbidity of personality disorders with illicit drug abuse has a deleterious effect on the management outcome of both conditions. this study was conducted to assess the prevalence of different personality disorders among substance dependent patients in an ïranian city (ïsfahan) with a view to have a better understanding of various management strategies. methods: â total of 368 dif...