conclusions as the results showed, the trend of activities was encouraging and some additional activities could be included to future programs relying on early-onset preventions. results summarizing the data led to three distinguished sections: 1) drug supply reduction activities; 2) drug demand reduction activities; 3) harm reduction activities. evidence acquisition in this report, authors gat...

BACKGROUND The public perception that mental disorder is strongly associated with violence drives both legal policy (eg, civil commitment) and social practice (eg, stigma) toward people with mental disorders. This study describes and characterizes the prevalence of community violence in a sample of people discharged from acute psychiatric facilities at 3 sites. At one site, a comparison group o...

conclusions in the initial treatment, it seems necessary to supervise and monitor the treatment process through staff in addiction treatment centers together with the company of the addicts’ families to reduce relapse rate. results the relapse rate was 30.42%, mean and median of the time to relapse (survival time) were 27.40 ± 1.63 months (ci 95%: 24.19 - 30.60) and 25 ± 2.25 months (ci 95%: 22...

INTRODUCTION Substance abuse among schizophrenic patients is a growing clinical concern. Substance use disorders and their effects on the course of schizophrenia have made the identification and treatment of schizophrenic patients a high priority. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of substance use, preferred types of substances, sociodemographic characteristics and clinical feature...

Background Mental illness and substance abuse are highly comorbid conditions. At the individual level, symptoms of one can influence symptoms of the other and therefore demand treatment approaches specific to the combination of substance abused and mental illness. At the population level, co-occurring substance use and mental illness challenge public health prevention efforts and decrease treat...

Background: Substance abuse is a common health problem which affects individual and takes toll on not only person consuming it rather all members of society related to that person. Aim & Objective: The purpose study was determine the prevalence substance use among females know reasons for same association socio-demographic profile use. Settings Design: Cross-sectional conducted attending OP...

Background: Adolescence is the age of curiosity, experimentation and new roles. This children start to explore world test everything around them. Substance abuse an alarming problem among adolescents in India. The objective assess prevalence, pattern determinants substance Bagalkot. Methods: A cross sectional study with a sample 384 adolescents, selected by disproportional stratified random sam...

Objective: To measure the prevalence of substance abuse and the associated risk factors among newly diagnosed patients with schizophrenia. Methods: The National Mental Health Registry (NMHR) in Malaysia contains a database of newly diagnosed patients with schizophrenia (N=4854) from 2003-2005. A Schizophrenia Notification Form was filled out by the treating physician and patients were evaluated...

Adults with substance use disorders (SUDs) report a high prevalence of childhood abuse. Research in the general population suggests specific types of abuse lead to particular negative outcomes; it is not known whether this pattern holds for adults with SUDs. We hypothesized that specific types of abuse would be associated with particular behavioral and emotional outcomes among substance users. ...