Aripiprazole Treatment in the Adolescent Patients with Inhalants Use Disorders and Conduct Disorder: A Retrospective Case Analysis Pharmacologically, aripiprazole is a partial agonist at D2 and 5-HT1A receptors and an antagonist at 5-HT2A receptors with the different effect on dopaminerjic system from other antipsychotics. Partial agonists are effective for stimulants, opiate, cocaine and nicot...

Pregnant women with substance use disorder (SUD) can face varying degrees of negative interactions healthcare providers, including judgment the individual’s value and involvement in their infant’s care. This research explored potential stigma attitudes among medical providers within a maternal/fetal setting towards maternal SUD. An electronic survey was administered to 117 health care social wo...

Abstract We investigated whether eating and body image disturbances in mid-adolescence were associated with substance use young adulthood. Participants ( n = 1566) completed the drive for thinness, bulimic behavior, dissatisfaction subscales from Eating Disorder Inventory during adolescence (15–16 years), reported frequencies of (tobacco, cannabis, binge drinking, other illicit substances) acro...

Background: The pattern of drug abuse in Iran has dramatically changed in recent years, turning from the traditional opioids [opium, opium dross, and refined opium dross (Shireh)] into drugs with newer forms. The present study is aimed at investigating the frequency of pathological changes in the lungs of bodies with positive postmortem toxicology results for narcotics and psychotropic substanc...

Known as an occupational disease, chronic manganese intoxication is recently being observed among abusers of psychoactive substances. Methcathinone hydrochloride is obtained by combining ephedrine/pseudoephedrine and potassium permanganate. Various neuropsychiatric symptoms have been reported among Efedron users. Our patient is a 29 year old male, who was referred to our hospital from a state g...