This article presents an artificial drug abusers system consolidating the impact of treatment with psychological and physiological addicts under fuzzy parameters. In model, all parameters are considered to be triangular numbers represent uncertainty that pervaded dynamics. To handle arrangements while avoiding problems, model is turned into a defuzzified using utility function method. The model...

OBJECTIVE Erectile dysfunction affects quality of life and is a common dysfunction in drug abusers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of erectile dysfunction in drug abusers on methadone maintenance therapy to reduce this drug side effect in the future studies. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted with two hundred addicted individuals on methadone maintenance the...

BACKGROUND Loneliness is one of the psychological variables related to high risk behaviors that should be investigated more. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to assess emotional, social, romantic, and familial dimensions of loneliness in drug abuser and nondrug abuser individuals. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred and twenty eight individuals were enrolled in this cross sectional study. Hu...

Narcotics and Psychotropic are humanity crimes which in recent years have shown a fairly high trend of increasing. This problem certainly causes many victims, especially among the younger generation at age learning. In Indonesia, legal regulations regarding acts drug abuse regulated Law no. 35 2009 concerning Narcotics. Based on these regulations, sanctions given for can be form criminal imposi...

OBJECTIVE To compare the absolute latencies, the interpeak latencies, and amplitudes of different waveforms of brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) in different drug abusers and controls, and to identify early neurological damage in persons who abuse different drugs so that proper counseling and timely intervention can be undertaken. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, BAEP`s were a...

Maintenance of the drug-addicted state is thought to involve changes in gene expression in different neuronal cell types and neural circuits. Midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons in particular mediate numerous responses to drugs of abuse. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate CNS gene expression through a variety of mechanisms, but next to nothing is known about their role in drug abuse. The proport...

Little is known about the association between personality disorders and neuropsychological test performance in chronic cocaine users. The aims of the present study were to (1) pinpoint the specific neuropsychological characteristics of chronic cocaine abusers, (2) analyze their personality profile, and (3) explore the association between personality traits and neuropsychological test performanc...